- Docente: Giorgio Ercolani
- Credits: 1
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
The student learns the basic science of the most important surgical disease of small bowel and principles of surgical treatment. This is useful to learn how to manage small bowel in reconstruction for urological diseases as bladder tumor. principles for diagnosis and treatment of adrenal gland tumor are also presented
Course contents
- Anatomy and fisiology of small bowel
- Benign and malignant tumor of small bowel
- Crohn's disease
- Basic principles of resection and reconstruction of small bowel, as well as bowel anastomoses. Morbidity. Different types of stoma
- Colorectal malignant tumor
- Classification, diagnosis and treatment of diverticulitis
- Anatomy and fisiology of adrenal gland
- feocromocitoma, Cushing syndrome and disease
- Kidney transplantation: Indication and basic principles of technique
Readings/Bibliography
- Renzo Dionigi – “Chirurgia, basi teoriche e chirurgia generale” - Quarta Edizione – Masson
- De Toma-Bellantone-Montorsi – “Chirurgia Generale, metodologia-patologia-clinica chirurgica” - Minerva Medica
Teaching methods
8 hours of frontal lessons
Assessment methods
Oral assessment: one question regarding the topic debated during the lessons will be part of the final vote
Teaching tools
Slides presented during the lessons will be available for the students
Office hours
See the website of Giorgio Ercolani