79600 - Oncologic Prosthesis

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Orthopaedics Techniques (cod. 5915)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, the student is familiar with the various types of orthoses, braces and prostheses used in the different anatomical locations, also taking into account the type of surgery performed to reconstruct the different joints affected by neoplasia

Course contents

1)General principles of oncological orthopaedic surgery

2) Lower limb amputations (transfemoral and transtibial) and the different types of stump prostheses

3) Amputations in the upper limb and the different types of stump prostheses

Readings/Bibliography

Teaching materials provided by the lecturer

Teaching methods

Lectures with the aid of PowerPoint presentations and multimedia files. Departmental attendance

Assessment methods

final interview based on multiple-choice questions/quizzes to check learning of the topics covered

Teaching tools

Slides provided by the teacher

Office hours

See the website of Giulio Maria Marcheggiani Muccioli