The theorical-practical course is designed to acquaint students with the medical record-charts of general surgery, to learn them what are the medical history to investigate the patients, the sympoms to program the hematologic and instrumental diagnostics. This course also helps students to understand the medical data to make a reliable diagnosis before surgery. A great help in this phase is the knowledge of the correct manouvres on the different organs and systems
Compulsory attendance in formal education, tutorial in semiological maneuvers on the patients in the department or during the ambulatory visit, view of interventions in the operating room
The program requires the student the knowledge of the most important diseases and of the medical record-charts of general surgery.
Biliary pathology and jaundice
Pancreatic pathology
Portal hypertension
Physical examination and diagnostic methodology of the breast
Physiopathology of esophageal motility
Shock
The neoplastic pathology of the digestive system
Physical examination and diagnostic methodology of the thyroid
Hemorrhagic syndromes of the digestive system
Acute abdomen
Bowel obstruction
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Davide F. D'Amico: "Manuale di Chirurgia Generale" Piccin
Bellantone-De Toma-Montorsi: "Chirurgia Generale. Metodologia, patologia clinica chirurgica" Minerva Medica
Il Rasario. Manuale di semeiotica Medica. Idelson-Gnocchi