Enrollment year
2020/2021
Academic discipline
MED/19 (PLASTIC SURGERY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL-SURGICAL, DIAGNOSTIC AND PEDIATRIC SCIENCES
Course
ORTHOPAEDICS TECHNIQUES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
(01/03/2022 - 17/06/2022)
Lesson hours
16 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Prerequisites
The student should know Physiology, General Pathology and Anatomy.
Learning outcomes
The Plastic Surgery body of knowledge is founded on solid biological and anatomical bases and involves a huge variety of clinical scenarios the health professional has to face in her/his everyday practice.
The scope of the course is to build a solid knowledge that would allow the health professional to recognize and understand the wide spectrum of pathologies that require the Plastic Surgery expertise.
Course contents
1 Wound healing and scar pathology
2 Techniques of suture
3 Grafts
4 Transplants
5 Implants
6 Advanced technologies in Plastic Surgery:
a VAC therapy
b LASER and IPL
c Radiofrequencies
d Ultrasounds
7 Skin tumours
a Basal cell carcinoma
b Squamous cell carcinoma
c Melanoma
8 Principles of oncological reconstructive surgery:
a Breast reconstruction
b Head and neck reconstruction
i. Scalp and forehead reconstruction
ii.Eyelid reconstruction
iii.Nose reconstruction
iv.Ear reconstruction
v.Lip reconstruction
vi.Reconstruction of the oral cavity
vii.Mandible reconstruction
9 Burns
10 Soft tissue trauma (compartment syndrome)
11 Soft tissue infectious diseases (necrotizing fascitis)
12 Principles of hand surgery:
a Functional anatomy of the hand
b Nerve compression syndromes
c Tendon injuries
d Dupuytren
f Chronic tenosynovitis
g Hand reconstruction
13 Hemangiomas and vascular malformations
14 Facial rehanimation
15 Difficult to heal wounds
16 Congenital pathology:
a Craniofacial malformations and syndromes (cleft lip and palate, craniosynostosis, craniofacial syndromes, craniofacial clefts)
b Congenital anomalies of the hand
c Genital malformations and reconstruction
17 Aesthetic surgery
Teaching methods
Interactive lessons.
Reccomended or required readings
Angela Faga. CHIRURGIA PLASTICA - RICOSTRUTTIVA ED ESTETICA. Third Edition. Elsevier-Masson.
Assessment methods
The exam is oral and is based upon the whole program. When preparing the exam, the student should refer to both the lessons and the textbook. The oral dissertation is based on the approach to a clinical case, it should be organized with logical order moving from the general to the particular and it should be supported by solid arguments, in a correct Italian language with the appropriate use of medical terminology.
Further information
The exam is oral and is based upon the whole program. When preparing the exam, the student should refer to both the lessons and the textbook. The oral dissertation is based on the approach to a clinical case, it should be organized with logical order moving from the general to the particular and it should be supported by solid arguments, in a correct Italian language with the appropriate use of medical terminology.
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