The module should provide the student with basic knowledge of the main reconstructive techniques. Starting from diagnostic framing, the essentials including associated anatomical recalls will be provided in order to consequently arrive at the appropriate and most innovative therapeutic strategies of tissue repair, including first aid treatments.
Prerequisites
Requirements of the degree panel
Teaching Methods
Lessons, case discussion, focus on course, clinical practice in OR, ER, ward, outpatient office
Further information
Educational material upon request
Type of Assessment
Oral examination and case discussion
Course program
Basic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
Introduction to the course and historical background
Definitions of simple and complex wounds. Pathophysiologic principles of the most common reparative processes. Wound healing. Complex dressings and advanced dressings. New devices. VAC therapy: clinical uses.
Sutures: classification of suture materials and their clinical uses: basic technique notes.
Grafts: definition, classification, clinical uses and surgical technique notes.
Flaps: definition, classification, clinical uses and operative technique notes. Latest generation flaps: perforating flaps and propeller flaps.
Breast surgery: anatomical and physiological framework of the breast. Breast reconstruction: basic principles for morpho-functional recovery. Immediate and deferred, autologous, heterologous and mixed reconstructions.
Malformative pathologies of the breast: diagnostic framing and therapeutic approach. Basic surgical techniques.
Gynecomastia: definition, classification and medical and surgical therapeutic approaches. Basic surgical techniques.
Bioengineered tissues: definition and clinical uses. Multi-organ donors and use of homologous tissues in life-saving measures.
Advanced reconstructive surgery and complex reconstructions.