Prerequisites
Students should have passed the examinations of the previous year of the course.
Course unit content
<br />Principles of General Pathology. Concept of health and concept of illness <br />
Inflammation <br />
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Signs and phenomena of acute inflammation <br />
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Exudate <br />
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Phagocytosis <br />
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Chemical mediators of inflammation <br />
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Chronic inflammation <br />
Tumours <br />
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Nomenclature <br />
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Epidemiology <br />
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Grading and staging <br />
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Differences between benign and malignant tumours <br />
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Neoplastic progression <br />
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Molecular base of neoplasms <br />
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Metastasis <br />
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Cachexia <br />
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Swelling of the neck <br />
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! Acute and chronic laryngitis <br />
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Benign tumours of the larynx <br />
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Malignant tumours of the larynx <br />
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Radical surgery of the oral cavity <br />
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Functional and radical surgery of the larynx. <br />
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Pathology of the middle ear and of the internal ear <br />
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Elements of ENT anatomy and physiology. <br />
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The ENT examination and instrumental diagnostics <br />
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Surgery of the nose and of the paranasal sinuses <br />
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Surgery of the oral cavity and of the oropharynx <br />
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Surgery of the neck <br />
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Surgery of the larynx and of the hypopharynx <br />
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Tracheotomy and tracheostomy tubes <br />
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Phoniatric and deglutition rehabilitation <br />
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Classification of auditory injuries <br />
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Infant auditory diseases <br />
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Transmissive deafness: <br />
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Congenital malformation of the external and of the middle ear. <br />
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! Acute phlogosis of the middle ear <br />
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Seromucous otitis <br />
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Chronic phlogosis of the middle ear <br />
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Neurosensory deafness <br />
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Hereditary deafness <br />
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Acquired deafness <br />
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Diagnosis and treatment of neurosensory auditory injuries <br />
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Audiometric strategy in infant deafness <br />
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Neonatal and pre-school age auditory screening <br />
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Infant hypoacusia and other disabilities <br />
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Presbyacusia <br />
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Etiopathogenesis o:p>< /FONT> <br />
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Clinical picture <br />
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Prosthesis-rehabilitative therapy.
Bibliography
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Lecture notes <br />
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1. Spector e Axford, Introduzione alla Patologia Generale, CEA <br />
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0pt; >2. Woolf, Patologia Generale ? Meccanismi della malattia, Idelson-Gnocchi <br />
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G.Rossi - Otorinolaringoiatria
