24021 - General Histopathology

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biomedical Laboratory techniques (cod. 8484)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student acquires the basic knowledge of surgical pathology and histopathology of neoplastic and non neoplastic diseases

Course contents

Applications of basic histopathology techniques to diagnostics.

Pathologic bases of inflammatory and infectious diseases

Precancer lesions and cancer.

Cancer grade and stage.

Focus on malignant epithelial tumors: lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, colo-rectal cancer, melanoma, brain tumors.

Focus on mesenchymal tumors: bone tumors, soft tissue sarcomas

Readings/Bibliography

Class presentations are available on Virtuale as pdf files.

Teaching methods

Class presentations.

Assessment methods

Written test with 30 multiple-choice questions on the topics presented in the classes at the end of the course.

The vote of the General Histopathology module will be integrate with the votes obtained in the other modules of integrated course to obtain the final vote.

Teaching tools

Discussion of histological digital slides

Office hours

See the website of Michelangelo Fiorentino