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 Prerequisites
The student should know Physiology, General Pathology and Anatomy.
Teaching Methods
Interactive lessons.
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.
Texts
Angela Faga. CHIRURGIA PLASTICA - RICOSTRUTTIVA ED ESTETICA. Third edition. Elsevier-Masson.
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's disease 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
Course Language
Italian
More information
The course lessons do not cover the whole program for the exam and the remaining part of it is left to the student’s individual study.
