09919 - Oncological Gynaecology

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Docente: Brunella Guerra
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/40
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Obstetrics (for certified professional obstetricians) (cod. 0743)

Learning outcomes

Knowledge  on neoplastic genital diseases; early diagnosis of tumours of the uterus and ovaries;  screening and management of cervical precancer

Course contents

Epidemiology of gynecolocic cancers

Natural history of cervical cancer, viral etiology, risk factors, squamous intraepithelial lesions, screening and management of cervical precancer ( pap test, HPV test, colposcopy, directed biopsy, treatment ) Staging and treatment of  cervical. invasive cancer

Endometrial carcinoma, atypical hyperplasia, risk factors, clinical features, diagnostic procedures (sonography, hysteroscopy, curettage), staging and treatment

Ovarian cancer, risk factors,clinical features, ultrasonographic screening,staging and treatment

Tumors of the vulva and vagina, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment of preneoplastic and advanced disease

Cancer in pregnancy

 

 

Readings/Bibliography

Lesson diagrams and notes will be provided at each meeting

GC Di Renzo   Ginecologia e Ostetricia  - Vol 2 - 2006 Verduci Editore

G. De Palo      Manuale di Colposcopia e Patologia del Tratto Genitale Inferiore- 2000 Masson

Griffits CT, Silverstone A, Tobias JS, Benjamin E    Oncologia Ginecologica  -  2002 Mosby Italia

Teaching methods

PC videoprojection of oral presentations

Assessment methods

Multiple choice questionnaire

Teaching tools

PC, papers, slides

Office hours

See the website of Brunella Guerra