- Docente: Michelangelo La Placa
- Credits: 3
- SSD: MED/35
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Advanced Cosmetic Sciences (cod. 9225)
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student: knows the diagnostic-clinical procedure of the main inflammatory skin dermatoses; knows the diagnostic-clinical procedure of the main cutaneous neoplasia; knows the diagnostic-clinical procedure of the main skin infections
Course contents
88419 –SKIN DISEASES
MICROBIOLOGY, SKIN DISEASES AND APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY C.I.
After attending the skin disorders course, the student will learn the basic principles of clinical dermatology, including morphology, configuration and distribution of skin and mucosae lesions and an overview of molecular biology and immunology of the skin and cutaneous disorders.
Main subjects of interest will be inflammatory dermatoses, including infections and allergic reactions, skin cancer and chronic photoaging related diseases.
- Skin and mucosae infections (bacterial diseases, fungal diseases, human papillomaviruses, human herpesviruses and other viral diseases, sexually transmitted infections)
- Papulosquamous disorders and immunomediated dermatoses (psoriasis, eczematous eruptions and allergic contact dermatitis)
- Acne and rosacea
- Drug reactions (urticarial, erythema multiforme, purpura and vasculitis)
- Pigmentary disorders (vitiligo)
- Benign neoplasms (melanocytic nevi)
- Principles of tumor biology and pathogenesis of skin cancer (benign epidermal tumors and proliferations, actinic keratosis, keratinocyte carcinoma, melanoma)
Readings/Bibliography
R. Marks & R. Motley
Roxburgh's Common Skin Diseases.
18th Edition
Hodder Arnold Editor
Office hours
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