Course contents
L* Generalities on the skin: macroscopic and microscopic characters
* Elemental primary and secondary skin lesions.
* Clinico-pathological correlations primary and secondary lesions
* Reactive histopathological patterns of the skin and clinico-pathological correlations
* Parasitic dermatoses: Scabies, Pediculosis, Larva migrans, Leishmaniasis
- Cutaneous mycoses: Superficial mycoses, Candidiasis, Pityriasis versicolor
- Pyogenic dermatitis: Pyoderma (impetigo/erysipela/cellulitis, Necrotizing fasciitis), folliculitis, foruncle, suppurative hiidroadenitis
- Cutaneous tuberculosis
- Hansen's disease (leprosy)
- Cutaneous virosis: Herpesvirus, Coxsackievirus, Papillomavirus, Poxvirus, orf, milkers' nodule
- Acne
- Rosacea
- Eczemas and eczematiform dermatitis: Allergic contact dermatitis, Atopic dermatitis, Eczema seborrhoea, Dyshidrosis, Eczema nummulare, Dermatitis
detritive dermatitis
- Acute and chronic urticaria
- Drug-related skin disorders: exanthema, fixed drug erythema, polymorphous erythema, Steven-Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis
(Lyell's syndrome), DRESS syndrome
- panniculitis, with particular reference to: erythema nodosum, panniculitis lupica, Bazin's indurated erythema, cold panniculitis, periarteritis nodosa
lipodermatosclerosis.
- Psoriasis
- Gibert's pityriasis rosea
- Erythrodermiasis (psoriasis, pityriasis rubra pilaris, iatrogenic, Sezary syndrome, eczematous)
- Lichen ruber planus and lichenoid dermatitis (generalities), cutaneous graft versus host disease
- Collagenopathies: chronic discoid lupus erythematosus, SLE, subacute cutaneous lupus, panniculitic lupus, lupus tumidus, dermatomyositis, progressive systemic scleroderma, CREST syndrome and morphea
- Autoimmune bullous dermatoses: Pemphigus, Pemphigoid, Dermatitis herpetiformis, Linear Ig A bullous dermatosis, Congenital bullous epidermolysis and
acqiusita
* Aphthrosis and Behect's disease
- Precancerosis"/carcinomas in situ of the skin and of the oral and genital mucosa (actinic keratosis, Bowen's disease, mammary and
extramammary, Queyrat's erythroplasia, leukoplakia)
- Benign and malignant epithelial tumours: seborrhoeic keratosis, basal cell carcinoma, spinocellular carcinoma, keratoacanthoma
- Cutaneous lymphomas (mycosis fungoides Sezary syndrome, lymphomatoid papulosis, CD30+ T lymphoma, primary cutaneous B-cell lymphomas including lymphoma
marginal, follicular, large cell lymphoma))
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis
- Sarcoidosis
* Porpores and vasculitis
- Angiosarcoma, Kaposi's disease, angiomas and pyogenic granuloma
* Mesenchymal tumours (leiomyoma, leiomyosarcoma, dermatofibroma, dermatofibrosarcoma, lipoma, angiosarcoma)
* Keratinous and non-keratinous cysts
- Nevi: non-melanocytic nevi, melanocytic nevi
- Dermoscopy of pigmented lesions.
- Melanoma
- Pigmentation disorders: vitiligo, albinism, pityriasis alba, melasma
- Nail pathology (mycoses, inflammatory diorders, tumors including melanoma of the nail)
- Principles of dermatologic therapy
- Venereology: syphilis, gonococcal infection, non-gonococcal urethritis, soft ulcer, lymphogranuloma venereum, cutaneous manifestations of A.I.D.S,
sexually transmitted diseases
- Balanospostitis, Phimosis, Paraphimosis.
INTERACTIVE DERMATOLOGY TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Practical (hands-on) small-group sessions are organized at the surgical dermatology clinic, and students are instructed in the performance of basic maneuvers of minor dermatologic surgery (curettage, shaving, escission with direct suture, local anesthaesia)
In addition, they are offered the opportunity to participate in small groups with calendared scheduling in the theoretical-practical meetings on clinical and histopathological correlation and multidisciplinary meetings on dermatologic oncology that are held
DERMATOLOGY ELECTIVE EDUCATION ACTIVITY
Students are accepted in shifts to perform an internship in the Department for a period of 4 weeks.
Students who intend to do a graduate internship are accepted after a careful and balanced evaluation of merit and aptitude.
Reccomended or required readings
Recommended
1. Malattie cutanee e veneree. Ayala, Lisi, Mofrecola, Argenziano, Stingeni. Seconda edizione, Piccin, 2018 (the entire programme of the course is exposed in a simple way
2. Dermatologia e Malattie Sessualmente Trasmissibili. Mario Pippione. IV Edizione, 2019 Edizioni Minerva Medica.
Pdf power point lessons / topics presented duriing the course
Advanced text:
Andrews'Diseases of the Skin Twelth Edition, Elsevier