B014526 - GENERAL SURGERY

Italian

Surgical patient evaluation.
Wounds and surgical infections.
Surgical diseases of breast, esophagus, stomach, colon rectum, liver, biliary tract,
pancreas and lung.
Acute abdomen.
Portal hypertension.
Endocrine diseases of surgical interest .
Oral and skin lesions in gastroenterological and systemic diseases.

- Petrin P, Pellizzo MR: Chirurgia Generale ad uso degli studenti di laurea in Odontoiatria e Protesi Dentaria. Ed Picin, 2007
- Lise M: Chirurgia per le professioni sanitarie. Ed. Piccin, 2006 oppure Chirurgia per infermieri.  V Edizione, Piccin–Nuova Libraria, 2016

- Pasquini G, Campa R, D’Ambrosio M, Leonardo G: Manuale di Chirurgia. McGraw-Hill, 2012
- D'Amico DF: Chirurgia generale. Fisiopatologia clinica e terapia. Ed Piccin-Nuova Libraria, 2018
- Dionigi R: Basi teoriche e chirurgia generale - Chirurgia specialistica. Edra Ed, 2017

Teaching objective of general surgery is to provide basic knowledge of the mainsurgical disease:
epidemiology, prevention, etiology, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms,complications, diagnostic investigations.

This knowledge will allow the specialist the right treatment choices in patients with surgical diseases.

Prerequisites: pharmacology exam.

lectures

Possible additional seminars

Final evaluation: knowledge and comprehension of the topics is verified at the end of the Course in writen form, 10 quiz questions and 1 open question.
In the same way is also carried out the "in itinere" verification.

GENERAL SURGERY
evaluation and the preparation of the person to surgery
Postoperative complications and their prevention
Infections and infestations in surgery
Wounds

SPECIAL SECTION

Thyroid and parathyroid
- goiters
- benign and malignant tumors of the thyroid
- hyperparathyroidism
Lung
- lung abscess
- primary and secondary tumors
- pneumothorax
Diaphragmatic hernias
Peritonitis
Bowel obstruction
Gstrointestinal bleeding
Esophagus
- malformations
- injestion of foreign bodies and caustic injury
- motility disorders
- diverticula
- gastroesophageal reflux disease
- esophageal cancer
Stomach and duodenum
- gastric and duodenal ulcer
- gastric cancer
- the operated stomach diseases
Small intestine, colon-rectum
- Meckel's diverticulum
- Crohn's disease
- intestinal ischemia
- small bowel tumors
- appendicitis
- ulcerative colitis
- diverticular disease
- polyps and polyposis
- cancer of the colon and rectum
- megacolon (Hirschsprung's disease)
Liver and biliary tract
- cholelithiasis
- echinococcosis
- liver abscesses
- tumors of the liver and biliary tract
Portal hypertension
Pancreas
- acute and chronic pancreatitis
- exocrine pancreatic carcinoma
- disease of the endocrine pancreas
Adrenal gland
- pheochromocytoma
- Cushing's syndrome
Syndromes poliendocrine
Oral and skin lesions in gastroenterological and systemic diseases.
Vascular surgery
- abdominal aortic aneurysm
- carotid artery stenosis
- acute and chronic ischemia of the lower limbs .
Urology
- cancer of the kidney, bladder, prostate and testiular..