- Docente: Letizia Polito
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
Course contents
1. Cellular and tissue damage
2. Neoplastic transformation
3. Inflammation: acute, chronic and reparative responses
4. Vascular disease
Teaching methods
Practical histopathology classes introduced by a lesson about the
characteristic aspects of the pathologies.
Students have the opportunity of studying the histological slides
by the individual access to microscopes in the teacher's presence.
Students must report their enrollment to elective course at the concierge of Via San Giacomo 14 or by mail to the teacher.
Assessment methods
The learning level will be assessed at the end of classes by the examination of a slide at light microscopy. The student must be able to recognize the morphologic alterations of cells and tissues and to discuss their pathogenesis.
Teaching tools
The histopathology laboratory has 48 microscopes and a computer-connected projector.
The digital version of histological slides is available on line at:
http://virtualmicroscopy.patologia-sperimentale.unibo.it/
Office hours
See the website of Letizia Polito