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CHIRURGIA GENERALE UROLOGIA E DIAGNOSTICA PER IMMAGINI - channel 1

Teaching Staff

ANTONIO GIUSEPPE BIONDI - Module CHIRURGIA GENERALE - MED/18 - 2 CFU
GIORGIO IVAN RUSSO - Module UROLOGIA - MED/24 - 2 CFU
STEFANO PALMUCCI - Module Radiodiagnostic - MED/36 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• UROLOGIA
  

  Goals : The course aims to provide students with the essentials knowledge of the main urological and andrological disease, the clinical course and the complications. At the end of the course, the student should know the basics of the main urological and andrological diseases and their diagnostic evaluation and the principal surgical and medical treatment.

• Radiodiagnostic
  

  The student should know main methods and machines used in diagnostic imaging; to understande the diagnostic process of main diseases; to learn how to prepare patients before radiodiagnostic procedures, namely when contrast administration is required

Course Structure

• Radiodiagnostic
  

  Lessons (generally for 2 hours) as scheduled in the calendar – available in the following link:

  http://www.medicina.unict.it/Pagina/It/Didattica_1/Corsi_di_Laurea_1/Corsi_di_Laurea_di_I_livello.aspx

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Detailed Course Content

• UROLOGIA
  

  1. Anomalies of urinary tract: hypospadias, epispadias, megaureter, ureterocele, posterior urethral

  valves, ureteropelvic junction obstruction, cystic disease;

  2. Haematuria: etiology, other sources of haematuria;

  3. Urinary tract infections (lower and upper UTI) including:

  a. Tubercolosis;

  b. Sexually Transmitted Infections (like HPV);

  4. Urolithiasis: etiology, diagnosis, medical and surgical management;

  5. Urinary incontinence: continence mechanism, urodynamics, neurological bladder, urinary

  incontinence in women;

  6. Lower urinary tract obstruction:

  a. Uretral stenosis;

  b. LUTS (lower urinary tract symptons): storage and voiding symptoms;

  c. Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: IPSS score, medical and surgical management;

  7. Prostate cancer: PSA and other molecular biomarkers, diagnosis, medical and surgical

  management;

  8. Neoplasms of kidney and upper urinary tract, renal cysts;

  9. Neoplasms of the bladder: diagnosis, disease management;

  10. Neoplasms of the testis;

  11. Pathologies of the scrotum: testicular torsion, hydrocele, varicocele;

  12. Kidney trauma.

• Radiodiagnostic
  
  • Radiodiagnostic (radiobiology, radioprotection, principles of justification and optimization)
  • Imaging procedures
  • X-rays production (definition and application of X-ray tube); properties of ionizing radiations (photoelectric effect, Compton effect, ionizations mechanism);
  • Computed Tomography (CT) scanner; (background, evolution, models, components of CT room scanner);
  • Contrast media (classification: radiographic, sonographic, MRI); use of contrast media; adverse reactions;
  • Principles and machines used in Ultrasonography (clinical applications in maternal-fetal contest, etc); clinilcal applications of ultrasonography in adults (liver, spleen, abdominal, thyroid US, etc);
  • Principles of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging); MRI scanner; absolute and relative controindications for patients before MRI;
  • Diagnostic process for respiratory disease (pneumothorax, trauma, hemoptysis, pneumonitis, neoplasia, enphysema, pulmonary nodule, pleural effusion); anatomy of chest radiography;
  • Diagnostic process for main gastrointestinal diseases (jaundice, cholecystitis, appendicitis, Crohn);
  • Abdominal X-ray in Emergency Room; imaging of gastrointestinal diseases;
  • Imaging of main uro-genital diseases (renal lithiasis; non-neoplastic and neoplastic bladder diseases; prostate disease; ovarian diseases, scrotal diseases);
  • Imaigng of SNC disease;
  • Radiotherapt and Nuclear Medicine: principles and applications

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Textbook Information

• UROLOGIA
  

  - Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: From Research to Bedside. Editors: Giuseppe Morgia Giorgio Russo. Paperback ISBN: 9780128113974

  - Porpiglia F. – “Urologia” – editore Minerva Medica

  - Collegio dei Professori Universitari di Prima Fascia in ruolo e fuori ruolo- “Manuale di Urologia e Andrologia” - Pacini Editore Medicin

• Radiodiagnostic
  

  1) Compendio di Radiologia” di Roberto Passariello e Giovanni Simonetti Editore Idelson – Gnocchi.

  2) Fernando Mazzuccato – Anatomia Radiologica Tecniche e Metodologie in Radiodiagnostica (Piccin)

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