Unit NEUROPATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSTICS
- Course
- Veterinary medicine
- Study-unit Code
- A000675
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Maria Teresa Mandara
- Teachers
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- Maria Teresa Mandara
- Hours
- 25 ore - Maria Teresa Mandara
- CFU
- 1
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2015
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- A scelta dello studente
- Area
- A scelta dello studente
- Academic discipline
- VET/03
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- General criteria of neuropathological diagnostic specifically addressed to CNS morphological and topographical analysis. Students attend to interactive discussion of neurological cases, evaluating the relationship between clinical signs and anatomical localization of lesions, analyzing and describing neuropathological findings and potential differential diagnoses.
- Reference texts
- MT Mandara et al. Atlante di Neuropatologia e Neuroimaging. Poletto ed., Milano, 2011
- Educational objectives
- The course attributes functional, clinical and prognostic interpretation to the neuropathology information given during the course of Pathological Anatomy. The course is compliant with the teaching aims (SUA A4.a) and employment outlets (SUA A2.a) of the Degree Course referred to diagnosis, care and prevention of animal diseases. Specifically, the aims of the course Neuropathological Diagnostic are:
To know. The Student must be able to elaborate neuronatomic localization of the lesions and to arrange algorithms and diagnostic approaches to the problem.
To make. The Student must be able to recognise and describe gross and basic lesions and histological patterns observed in SNC and PNS
- based on distribution pattern, neuronatomic localisation and associated anamnestic data, the Student must be able to check the differential diagnoses for the most common neurological diseases of domestic animals. - Prerequisites
- To learn the given subjects and to gain the learning aims of the course, as well as to be able to apply the main techniques and methods described during the course, the students must have successfully passed the exam of Pathological Anatomy. Moreover, the subjects discussed in the course need basic knowledgments of Neuroanatomy and Neurophisiology. This information is strongly due to gain the aims of the course.
- Teaching methods
- The first session is devoted to neuroanatomical localization of lesions (1st day - 5hs). Subsequently, four neurological cases consistent with different functional systems of Nervous System are analysed. For each of them 5 hours are dedicated as to follow:
- Analysis of clinical sheet and neuroanatomic localization of lesions (2hs)
- Gross exam of brain and/or spinal cord and description of lesions (1h)
- Histological exam of brain and spinal cord slides (1h)
- Morphological diagnosis and eziopathogenetic evaluations in d.d. (1h) - Other information
- The access and work at the Dissection room and histological labs are defined by special procedures which are available at UniStudium page of the course. The activity schedule is available at VMD http://www.medvet.unipg.it/didattica
- Learning verification modality
- The course does not provide a final exam, as the current Learning Organization. Therefore, the student learning is tested during the course step by step in the neuropathologic diagnostic iter.
- Extended program
- Based on a critical analysis of 4 neurological cases supported by clinical data and imaging, the course illustrates the functional systems of Nervous System starting from neurological clinical cases associated with complete history and imaging findings (MRI). IN the second part of training the general criteria of neuropathological diagnosis addressed to morphological and topographical analysis of Central Nervous System are applied to define the most coherent differential diagnoses.