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General Surgery - module of General Thoracic Surgery
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General Surgery - module of General Thoracic Surgery
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Academic year 2024/2025
- Course ID
- SCB0229B
- Teacher
- Francesco Leo (Lecturer)
- Year
- 6th year
- Teaching period
- First semester
- Type
- Basic
- Credits/Recognition
- 3 (24 hours of lectures, 12 hours of exercises)
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- MED/21 - thoracic surgery
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- Italian
- Attendance
- Mandatory
- Type of examination
- Oral
- Type of learning unit
- modulo
- Modular course
- General Surgery (SCB0229)
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
Objectives of the General Thoracic Surgery course are a) to improve knowledge in major surgical diseases of the chest and their pathophysiological consequences b) to develop ability in defining proper diagnostic preoperative protocols and surgical indications c) to acquire basic competence in safe management of chest drain
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Results of learning outcomes
Knowledge of surgical diseases of the chest and their pathophysiology
Ability in defining preoperative management and surgical indications
Competence in safe management of chest drain
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Program
1. Introduction - Preoperative functional evaluation - Surgical access and type of lung resection
2. Lung cancer: diagnosis, staging and surgical treatment
3. Infections and chronic infiammatory lung disease - Acute infective disease
4. Pneumothorax - Chest drain
5. Bullectomy, lung volume reduction and lung transplantation
6. Pleural empyema - Chylothorax
7. Recurrente pleural effusion - Pleural mesothelioma
8 Open and blunt chest trauma
9. Carcinoid - Lung metastases
10. Mediastinal tumors
11. Tracheal stenosis - Tracheal tumors
12. Chest wall tumors - Congenital chest wall deformity
13. Thymic biology - Miastenia gravis
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Course delivery
Frontal teaching
Course schedule: 4:00-6:00 pm 22/11, 29/11, 1/12, 5/12, 7/12, 11/12, 14/12, 9/1, 10/1, 11/1 (2-4 pm), 12/1, 17/1
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Learning assessment methods
Oral exam (final vote /30)
2024 Exams schedule: 2:30 pm 22/1, 12/2, 22/4, 13/5, 17/6, 15/7, 16/9, 16/12
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Book
- Title:
- Pearson’s General Thoracic Surgery, ed 2021, (Bibliopass)
- Year of publication:
- 2021
- Publisher:
- Society of Thoracic Surgeons
- Author:
- AAVV
- Required:
- Yes
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Notes
Students with DSA or disabilities are kindly requested to take note of the reception services and support services offered by the University of Turin, and in particular of the procedures required for exam support.
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