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Head and neck diseases - Module of Otorhinolaryngology
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Otorhinolaryngology
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Academic year 2023/2024
- Course ID
- SCB0219B
- Teacher
- Giovanni Succo (Lecturer)
- Year
- 4th year
- Teaching period
- To be defined
- Credits/Recognition
- 2 (16 hours of lectures, 8 hours of exercises)
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- MED/31 - otorhinolaryngology
- Delivery
- Blended
- Language
- Italian
- Attendance
- Mandatory
- Type of learning unit
- modulo
- Modular course
- Head and Neck Diseases (SCB0219)
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
The student must acquire adequate theoretical and practical knowledge in Otolaryngology and Audiology fields, for adult and pediatric age. The competencies must concern the anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology and clinic of the ear, the nose, the salivary glands, the oral cavity and oropharynx, the larynx and hypopharynx.
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Results of learning outcomes
At the end of the course the students have the fundamentals of the topographical anatomy of the head-neck district, except for the brain; of infectious, inflammatory, oncological, traumatological and malformative diseases of the above district. In more detail, the students must have specific knowledge on clinical case, semeiological data, diagnostic imaging and principles of medical and/or surgical therapy.
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Program
Elements of anatomy-physiology of nose and paranasal sinues, nosebleeds, deformities and deviations, inflammatory and allergic diseases, tumors, sinusitis. Salivary glands: salivary calculosis and inflammatory-oncogical diseases. Pharynx: elements of anatomo-physiology and semeiotics, acute and chronic diseases of nasopharynx, nasopharynx tumors. Acute and chronic diseases of the oropharynx: pharyngitis, tonsillitis, angina, complications of flogosis oro-pharyngeal (phlegmon and peritonsillar abscesses, retropharyngeal and lateropharyngeal abscesses), tumors of the oropharynx. Anatomo-physiology of larynx, dyspnea, dysphonia, dysphagia. Acute and chronic laryngitis, laryngeal paralysis, benign laryngeal neoformations (nodules, polyps, Reinke edema, granulomas, amyloidosis, cysts), precancerous laryngeal lesions, laryngeal tumors. Indications to tracheotomy and surgical technique. Anatomo-physiology of phonations and laryngeal semeiotics, dyskinesia, dyslalias, dysarthria, language delays, re-educations of severe hearing loss, re-education of laryngectomies. Physiology and pathology of swallowing. Taste and olfctory function and pathologies. OSAS. Paralysis of the facial nerve.
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Course delivery
The course includes 12 hours of lectures.
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Learning assessment methods
The course program will be check with the students at the end of the course.
The exam will consist of a multiple choice test (16 questions).
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Book
- Title:
- Otorhinolaringology
- Year of publication:
- 2021
- Publisher:
- Minerva Medica
- Author:
- Roberto Albera, Andrea Canale, Giovanni Cavallo, Giancarlo Pecorari, Giovanni Succo
- ISBN
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- 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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