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THORACIC SURGERY

Degree course: 
Corso di Long single cycle degree (6 years) in MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2018/2019
Year: 
4
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2021/2022
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Credits: 
2
Period: 
First Semester
Standard lectures hours: 
24
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (16 hours), Seminar (8 hours)
Assessment: 
Voto Finale

Surgical anatomy, pathophysiology, natural history and diagnostic methods of the main surgical diseases of the chest.
Chest wall: malformations; tumors; surgical anatomy;diagnostic procedures.
Pleura: pleural effusions; empyema; hemothorax; chylothorax; pleural mesothelioma; metastatic pleural tumors; spontaneous and acquired pneumothorax.
Mediastinum: surgical anatomy; pathophysiology; diagnostic methods; mediastinal syndromes; inflammatory and neoplastic diseases; tumors of the anterior, middle and posterior mediastinum; thymic tumors.
Trachea: surgical anatomy; pathophysiology; diagnostic methods;malformations;inflammatory and neoplastic diseases; trauma.
Lung: anatomy; pathophysiology; malformations; inflammatory, infectious and degenerative diseases; primary and metastatic neoplasm: natural history and diagnosis.
Diaphragm: diaphragmatic hernias: surgical anatomy, pathophysiology, diagnostic methods.
Chest trauma: rib fractures, penetreting and blunt trauma, injuries of the thoracic organs; mediastinal emphysema.
Tracheobronchial endoscopy and thoracoscopy.

Program of THORACIC SURGERY:
surgical anatomy, pathophysiology, natural history and diagnostic methods of the main surgical diseases of the chest.
Chest wall: malformations; tumors; surgical anatomy;diagnostic procedures.
Pleura: pleural effusions; empyema; hemothorax; chylothorax; pleural mesothelioma; metastatic pleural tumors; spontaneous and acquired pneumothorax.
Mediastinum: surgical anatomy; pathophysiology; diagnostic methods; mediastinal syndromes; inflammatory and neoplastic diseases; tumors of the anterior, middle and posterior mediastinum; thymic tumors.
Trachea: surgical anatomy; pathophysiology; diagnostic methods;malformations;inflammatory and neoplastic diseases; trauma.
Lung: anatomy; pathophysiology; malformations; inflammatory, infectious and degenerative diseases; primary and metastatic neoplasm: natural history and diagnosis.
Diaphragm: diaphragmatic hernias: surgical anatomy, pathophysiology, diagnostic methods.
Chest trauma: rib fractures, penetreting and blunt trauma, injuries of the thoracic organs; mediastinal emphysema.
Tracheobronchial endoscopy and thoracoscopy.

R. Dionigi: Chirurgia, Ed. Elsevier,2017
Sabiston, Textbook of Surgery, ed. Elsevier - Health Sciences Division, 2016
Shields' General Thoracic Surgery ed. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2018

Lecturers

By appointment (institutional email: andrea.imperatori@uninsubria.it)

Professors

IMPERATORI ANDREA SELENITO

Parent course

SURGICAL PATHOLOGY 2