B0196 - TECNICHE DI CHIRURGIA TORACICA TRA PASSATO, PRESENTE E FUTURO

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5905)

Learning outcomes

To learn and explore past and current thoracic surgery techniques.

Course contents

This part of the Elective Course has the following objectives:

  • Define the role of the thoracic surgeon in malignant lung diseases.

  • Develop knowledge regarding the history of thoracic surgical techniques: from the open technique to the minimally invasive technique.

  • Define surgical video thoracoscopy (VATS).

  • Define robotic thoracic surgery (RATS).

Readings/Bibliography

Teaching material projected and used during lessons.

Dionigi : Surgery .Ed. Masson ; Pearson: Thoracic Surgery, Ed Churchill Livingstone.

Shields' General Thoracic Surgery [https://shop.lww.com/Shields--General-Thoracic-Surgery.

Using PubMed to search for recent scientific publications of interest. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Teaching methods

Discussion of the main diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in the thoracic surgical field.

Assessment methods

Oral examination.

Teaching tools

Video projector, PC , lesson paper, CD-ROM.

Office hours

See the website of Beatrice Aramini