MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY
cod. 01740

Academic year 2007/08
4° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Chirurgia maxillofacciale (MED/29)
Field
Specialita medico-chirurgiche
Type of training activity
Related/supplementary
12 hours
of face-to-face activities
1.5 credits
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course unit
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Learning objectives

<br />Across a thoroug treatment of the varied areas of interest of the specific discipline (traumatology; congenit and acquired malformations; oncology), it is wanted to provoke in the student a passion exceeding the simple overcoming of the final examination of the course, stimulating in him the curiosity to deepen the varied arguments so to reach a good professional training to be able to diagnose and to differentiate the varied pathological conditions during its future activity.     

Prerequisites

Having successfully completed the preclinical Courses

Course unit content

<br />-         Clefts lip and palate: embryology, clinics, therapy<br />-         Clinical features of the main cranio-facial malformations<br />-         Dentofacial anomalies: clinics, therapy<br />-         Surgical pathology of the salivary glands (with special interest to parotid tumors)<br />-         Oral cavity cancer: etiopathogenesis, clinics, therapy<br />-         Malignant tumors of the paranasal sinuses: diagnosis, clinics, therapy<br />-         Reconstructive surgery of the head and neck region: general concepts and short accounts of the main used flaps<br />-    Traumatology of the maxillo-facial district: clinics, therapy

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />-         R. Brusati, M. Chiapasco: Elementi di chirurgia oro-maxillo-facciale, Ed. Masson<br />-         J.C. Posnick: Craniofacial and maxillofacial  surgery in children and young adults, Ed. Saunders<br />-         Thawley, Panje, Batzakis, Lindberg: Comprehensive management of head and neck tumors, Ed. Saunders<br />-         Urken, Cheney, Sullivan, Biller: Atlas of regional and free flaps for head and neck reconstruction, Ed. Raven      -     Fonseca, Walker, Betts, Barber: Oral and maxillofacial trauma, Ed. Saunders

Teaching methods

<br /><br /><br /><br />-        Teachers:  Prof. Enrico Sesenna, Tito Poli 

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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