38249 - Appearance and Function in Plastic Surgery - 2CFU

Learning outcomes

Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery is a discipline that, mostly in the last years, faced an extremely wide evolution, becoming, probably, the most interdisciplinary one among all the areas of Medicine and Surgery. It in facts wands between aesthetic and functional repair of post-traumatic lesions to the morpho-functional correction of malformative defects, from the restoration of the outcomes of oncologic surgery to the aesthetic correction of the damages due to ageing, from the study of reparing processes to the recently opened area of the tissue regenerative surgery (from the use of biologic substitutes to stem cells) to the transplantation of complex structures (face, hand). Nontheless, its placement in the Medicine curse of study into an integrated curse together with Dermatology and Infective diseases, based on a concepta that nowadays is widely outdated of a sort of dependency from dermatology, along with the consequently limited lessons amount, imposes no more acceptable limitations in the formation of a Medicin Doctor about this scientific area. De facto, due to obvious opportune integration reasons, the Medicine student receives informations pertaining almost only about the so called Dermatosurgery, a branch of Plastic Reconstructive suregery that only minimally represents the whole discipline, so that, more and more frequently, a young Medicine Doctor is informed about the opportunities offered by Plastic Surgery only by the mass media.

Course contents

Principi della Chirurgia Plastica e sue possibilità d'intervento
Principles of regenerative surgery by means of tissue substitutes and stem cells
Aesthetic and functional aspects of repair postreaumatic face and limbs lesions
Correction of the main congenital and acquired malformations
Aesthetic aims in the reconstruction of the outcomes of oncologic surgery (skin neoplasms, breast neoplasms, face soft tissue neoplasms)
Principles of tissue ageing and present possibilities of reduction of the effects of ageing and of the damages caused by sun or ionizing radiations exposure
Correction of face and body dismorphisms

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Teaching methods

Assessment methods

Oral test

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