2017/2018

2020/2021

DM270

MED/27 (NEUROCHIRURGIA)

DIPARTIMENTO DI MEDICINA MOLECOLARE

MEDICINA E CHIRURGIA (IN LINGUA INGLESE)

PERCORSO COMUNE

4°

Secondo Semestre (01/03/2021 - 04/06/2021)

1

8 ore di attività frontale

English

ORALE

MAGRASSI LORENZO - 1 CFU

The target of the course will be gain an effective knowledge of the diagnostic and the therapeutic processes involved in treating neurosurgical patients. This knowledge will be indispensable to the future physicians not specifically trained in Neurosurgery to seek neurosurgical assistance for their patients when appropriate, and discuss with the neurosurgeon her/his diagnostic and therapeutic indications.

1) Intracranial Hypertension and coma.
2) Diagnosis and Neurosurgical Management of Head Trauma and its consequences.
3) Diagnosis and Neurosurgical Management of primitive and secondary tumors of the brain and the spinal cord.
4) Diagnosis and Neurosurgical Management of degenerative and traumaatic pathologies of the spine.
5) Diagnosis and Neurosurgical Management of hemorragic cerebrovascular diseases.
6) Diagnosis and Neurosurgical Management of hydrocephalus and spinal dysraphism.
7) Diagnosis and Neurosurgical Management of neurosurgically treatable pain.
8) Diagnosis and Neurosurgical Management of movement disorders and epilepsy.

Lectures

By attending to the lectures and seminars the student will be able to reach a sufficient knowledge of Neurosurgery to fulfill the requirements of the exam.
If she or he prefers a written text there are many resources over the internet provided by the principal neurosurgical association that are free of charge.
A basic text covering most of Neurosurgery:

Mark S. Grenberg, Handbook of Neurosurgery. Thieme, New York.

Oral examination.