- Docente: Marco Pignatti
- Credits: 1
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student: - knows the principles of plastic surgery and how they are applied in different settings. In particular will know the methods used in breast reconstruction, in the reconstruction of head and neck and in other anatomical areas.
Course contents
PLASTIC SURGERY TEACHING PROGRAM:
Basic principles and techniques in reconstructive plastic surgery -Sutures, grafts, flaps.
Skin cancer and melanoma: surgical excision and reconstruction.
Post-mastectomy breast reconstruction.
Microsurgical flaps
Burns: basis, diagnosis and treatment
Basic principles on: head and neck and upper limb Malformations; Trauma of the face and limbs, face, breast, limbs; other multidisciplinary applications of Plastic Surgery
Readings/Bibliography
- Giele, Cassell - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Oxford University Press
- GRABB and SMITH'S - Plastic Surgery - Wolters Kluwer Health
- RAPOSIO, SANTI- Principi di chirurgia plastica – Ed . Libellula
Teaching methods
The course will consist of 8 hours of lectures, held in the Chiantore classroom (canale A).
Specific iconography will be projected to support the theoretical foundations.
Assessment methods
The final exam aims to evaluate the achievement of the teaching objectives reported in the program and it oral.
The final grades are an average of the marks obtained in the three different disciplines of which the integrated course consists
Teaching tools
Frontal lessons, Projection of slides, attendance through practical training (when possible), suggested book texts.
Any further information may be processed outside the lessons timetable with those who explicitly request it.
Office hours
See the website of Marco Pignatti