00031 - Pathological Anatomy (AK-B)

Learning outcomes

The Course aims to provide the medical student with the tools to understand:

• the main epidemiological, etiopathogenetic, morphologic, phenotypic, and clinico-pathologic characteristics of the tumours of the larynx, lung, intestine, thyroid, kidney, urinary tract, bone and soft tissues;
• the methodological approach to the pathological diagnosis of the above mentioned diseases.

Course contents

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Readings/Bibliography

Robbins and Contran. Pathologic Basis of Disease. 7th Edition.

Download of pdf files from the Faculty web-site and corresponding to most if not all the lectures given by the teaching team

Teaching methods

Attendance at classes and individual learning at home bases on the suggested textbook and electronic files.

Assessment methods

Oral evaluation

Teaching tools

Formal lectures integrated by the projection of PowerPoint files with macroscopic and microscopic images and video-tapes

Office hours

See the website of Giovanna Cenacchi