Learning objectives
During the course the student is expected to acquire the essential elements of surgical pathology required for the subsequent studying of surgery-related subjects.
Course unit content
The educational goal of the course is to identify and examine the most common diseases of surgical interest affecting our animals. Pathologies studied include traumatic diseases, malformations and deformities, heterotopies, ectopies and paratopes, as well as diseases of the skin, bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles, joints and eye and nerves.
Bibliography
FOSSUM Small animal surgery
3° ed., Mosby, Gennaio 2007
AUER Equine surgery
3° ed.,W.B. Saunders, Dicembre 2005
Assessment methods and criteria
Multiple choice sessions.