37314 - CHIRURGIA GASTROENTEROLOGICA ED ENDOCRINOLOGIA

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5905)

Course contents

Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
Indications, main surgical techniques, outcomes, and complications

Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Hiatal Hernias
Surgical aspects, indications, and corrective techniques

Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GISTs)
Diagnosis, staging, surgical and medical treatment

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD)
Clinical features and surgical indications in Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

Retroperitoneal Sarcomas
Principles of diagnosis and surgical management

Thyroid Nodule and Tumors of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands
Staging, surgical indications, and operative strategies

Intestinal Resections and Anastomoses – Types of Stomas
Technical principles, indications, and management

Colorectal Cancer
Clinical presentation, staging, and basic surgical principles

Diverticular Disease of the Colon
Classification, diagnosis, and therapeutic principles

Adrenal Glands: Anatomy, Pathophysiology, and Surgical Pathologies
Cushing’s syndrome, pheochromocytoma, primary hyperaldosteronism, adrenal incidentalomas

Readings/Bibliography

1) Slides

2) Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice

Assessment methods

The final examination is oral, consisting of at least 1–2 questions on topics covered during the lectures. The final grade will be the average of the marks obtained for answers to questions from the subjects included in the Integrated Course.

Teaching tools

All materials presented during the lectures will be made available to students.

Office hours

See the website of Leonardo Solaini