Ateneo - UPO

Main pathologies in the ENT field: otological, rhinological, upper airways and pharyngo-laryngeal disorders; head and neck cancer; obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS); clinical cases discussion especially regarding ENT emergencies.

1. Trattato di otorinolaringoiatria ed audiologia
L. Pignataro – Ed. Edises 3

2. Otorinolaringoiatria IV edizione

R. Albera, G. Rossi – Ed. Minerva medica

Acquire teoretic and practical skills in the field of diagnosis, clinical presentation and basis of therapy of the main ENT and cervical facial diseases.
Provide the student with the elements necessary to formulate differential diagnoses and propose appropriate treatments using the knowledge acquired independently.

Base of anatomy-physiology of the head-neck district.

Frontal lessons with slides
Presentation and interactive discussion of Clinical cases on general ENT topics

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Oral examination.
The oral test aims to verify the level of knowledge and understanding of the course content and to assess the autonomy of judgment, the learning ability and the communicative ability. The student in particular must demonstrate that he has acquired sufficient clinical-diagnostic knowledge in the main ENT pathologies and that he has developed clinical reasoning and differential diagnostics skills, with adequate clarity of presentation.

AUDIOLOGY AND OTOLOGY
- Anatomo-physiology of the ear
- Pathology of the external ear
- Acute otitis media
- Effusive otitis
- Chronic otitis (simple, cholesteatoma and its complications)
- Otosclerosis
- Audiometry Expected learning outcomes
- Impedance measurement
- Auditory evoked potentials
- Congenital deafness
- Sudden hearing loss and sensorineural hearing loss of adults
- Anatomo-vestibular physiology
- Dizziness: general information and diagnostic framework
- The nystagmus
- Vestibular examination
- Peripheral vestibular syndromes

Rhinology
- Anatomy and physiology of the nose
- Rhinitis, rhinosinusitis, nasal polyposis, complications
- Epistaxis
- acute and chronic tonsillitis; meta focal events; complications adenoid syndrome

LARYNX
- Anatomo-physiology of the larynx
- Acute and chronic laryngitis (polyps, nodules, precancerous)
- Laryngeal paralysis
- Other paralysis (VII- IX - X-XI-XII)
- Rehabilitation of the voice after surgery

ONCOLOGY
- Tumors of the larynx
- Tumors of the hypopharynx
- Lymph node emptying of the neck
- Cancer of the oropharynx
- Sinus-sinus tumors
- Cancers of the nasopharynx

SALIVARY GLANDS
- Salivary gland pathologies

RESPIRATORY DISTRESS
- Dyspnoea of ​​the upper airways
- Indications for tracheostomy

MISCELLANEOUS PATHOLOGIES
- Cervical swellings
- Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS)
- Foreign bodies in ENT

CLINICAL CASES

Acquisition of theoretic and practisal knowledge, understanding and clinical evaluation skills of the main ENT pathologies most frequently found in general medicine and urgency department; ability to integrate specialist diagnostic clinical knowledge in the head-neck district and of multidisciplinar interest.