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MALATTIE DEL SISTEMA NERVOSO - channel 4

Teaching Staff

ALESSANDRA NICOLETTI - Module NEUROLOGIA - MED/26 - 4 CFU
STEFANO PALMUCCI - Module Neuroradiology - MED/37 - 1 CFU
GIUSEPPE MARIA BARBAGALLO - Module Neurosurgery - MED/27 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• NEUROLOGIA
  

  To provide students skills for the proper historical data collection and to address the neurological clinical examination

  To provide students basic clinical knowldge for the diagnostic and therapeutic process of main neurological disease affecting

  - central nervous system

  - Peripheral nervoussystem

  -muscles

• Neuroradiology
  

  Aims of this module:

  1) to give an accurate knolwdge of diseases of Peripheral and Central Nervous System;

  2) to show the different imaging modalities in the study of Peripheral and Central Nerous System;

• Neurosurgery
  

  To provide students with understanding of epidemiology, classification, clinical features, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the most common neurosurgical diseases, both cranio-cerebral and vertebro-medullary ones.

Course Structure

• Neuroradiology
  

  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

  On-line lessons could be also performed,

• Neurosurgery
  

  Frontal teaching; practical training and seminars to be held at the Neurosurgical Unit, Policlinico San Marco University Hospital, Catania

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Detailed Course Content

• NEUROLOGIA
  

  Neuroanatomy and Neurophisiolofy

  Neurologic examination

  Stroke

  Neurodegenerative diseases of central nervous system

  Infiammatory diseases of both central and peripheral nervous system

  Muscle disease

  Epilepsia

  Rare neurologic diseases

• Neuroradiology
  

  The course promotes the knowledge of most important clinical features of Central and Peripheral Nervous Syste, in order to perform neuroradiological examinations in a pertinent mode to disease's features.

  Main clinical features, with relative important radiological features, are listed for ischemic, haemorrhagic, infectious and neoplastic diseases.

  Main congenital malformations are discussed, with particular regard to the study techniques, in order to reach a correct identification.

• Neurosurgery
  
  • Intracranial hypertension

  • Cerebro-spinal Fluid circulation diseases: diagnosis and treatment (hydrocephalus)

  • Cranio-cerebral hemorrhages, including subarachnoid hemorrhage

  • Traumatic brain injuries

  • Brain tumors: diagnosis and multimodal treatment, including sellar and parasellar tumors

  • Vertebral and spinal cord tumors (extradural, intradural-extramedullary, intramedullary)

  • Cranio-cerebral and vertebro-medullary malformations

  • Traumatic spine injuries

  • Cervical spondylotic myelopathy and cervical disc herniation

  • Lumbar and thoracic spine disc herniation, spondylosis and spondylolisthesis

  • Main peripheral neuropathies

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Textbook Information

• NEUROLOGIA
  

  Il Bergamini di Neurologia

  Autore: Bergamini - Lopiano - Mutani - Durelli - Mauro - Chio' , Editore: Edizioni Libreria Cortina Torino

• Neuroradiology
  
  1. Compendio di risonanza magnetica. Cranio e rachide. (Autore Giancarlo Dal Pozzo)​
  2. Osborn's Brain (Editore Piccin)
  3. Neuroradiology: The requisites 4th edition (Autori Nadgir e Yousem)
  4. Elementi di Tecnologia Radiologica (Idelson-Gnocchi)
• Neurosurgery
  

  Neurochirurgia in 10 lezioni

  Editore: Minerva Medica

  Data di Pubblicazione: 2019

   

  Neurology and Neurosurgery Illustrated - Fifth Edition

  Kenneth W. Lindsay - Ian Bone - Geraint Fuller

  Editor: Churchill Livingstone - Elsevier

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