Patologia del Tratto Genitale Inferiore e Colposcopia

Description

SECTION I – Basic Principles

1. Embryology, anatomy and histology of the uterine cervix
2. Pathogenesis of HPV disease and mechanisms of host immune response dysregulation
3. Epidemiology of cervical cancer and its precursors: the impact of prevention strategies
4. Natural history and risk factors of cervical neoplasia
5. Classifications and histopathology of precancerous cervical lesions

SECTION II – Non-Instrumental Diagnosis of Cervical Lesions

6. Biomarkers in cervical pathology
7. The role of cervicovaginal cytology

SECTION III – Instrumental Diagnosis of Cervical Lesions

Colposcopy

8. History of colposcopy
9. Morphostructural and optical principles of colposcopic image formation. How to choose a colposcope
10. Colposcopic examination: instrumentation, technique, terminology and reporting – indications and limitations of colposcopy
11. Biopsy

Colposcopic Classifications and Quality Control

12. Classifications and evolution of the colposcopic examination
13. Colposcopic grading and index
14. Quality control in colposcopy

Colposcopic Patterns and Histological Correlations

15. The normal cervix and the transformation zone at different ages
16. The cervix during pregnancy
17. The uterine cervix in menopause
18. Infectious pathology and inflammatory patterns
19. Colposcopic morphology of viral infections
20. Histopathological bases of the transformation zone and colposcopic correlations
21. Squamous intraepithelial lesions
22. Glandular lesions

Part I – Histopathology

Part II – Clinical Practice

23. Miscellany

SECTION IV – Ancillary Methods

24. Microcolpohysteroscopy
25. Endocervicoscopy
26. VIA screening and colposcopic triage
27. Role of ultrasound in cervical cancer

SECTION V – Cervical Cancer: Prevention

28. HPV vaccines
29. Cervical cancer screening: evolution and current algorithms
30. Communication with the patient

SECTION VI – Cervical Cancer: Treatment Techniques

31. Electrosurgery
32. Laser
33. Cryotherapy
34. Cold-knife cervical conization

SECTION VII – Cervical Cancer: Treatment of Preneoplastic Lesions

35. Evolution of CIN treatment
36. National and international guidelines for preneoplastic cervical lesions
37. The concept of triage in the diagnosis of preneoplastic lesions
38. Strategies in the treatment of CIN
39. Treatment of CIN in young women
40. Treatment strategies for CIN during pregnancy
41. CIN and HIV. Treatment strategies
42. Treatment of glandular lesions

SECTION VIII – Cervical Cancer: Follow-up, Recurrences, Complications

43. Follow-up of high-grade squamous cervical lesions: modalities, risk factors and management of recurrences
44. Early and late complications

SECTION IX – Microinvasive Carcinoma

45. Microinvasive carcinoma of the uterine cervix: diagnosis and treatment

SECTION X – Vulva: General Principles

46. Embryology, anatomy and histology of the vulva
47. Medical history, diagnostic approach and biopsy in vulvar pathology
48. Terminology of vulvovaginal lesions

SECTION XI – Vulva: Non-Neoplastic Pathology

49. Inflammatory and infectious vulvar pathology
50. Genital condylomatosis
51. Allergic and irritative contact vulvitis
52. Vulvar dermatoses: Lichen sclerosus, Lichen planus, Lichen simplex chronicus, psoriasis

SECTION XII – Vulva: Neoplastic Pathology

53. Etiology and diagnosis of vulvar squamous intraepithelial neoplasia
54. Treatment modalities of VIN
55. Invasive squamous carcinoma of the vulva. Diagnosis, staging and principles of therapy
56. Paget’s disease of the vulva

SECTION XIII – Vagina: General Principles and Infectious Pathology

57. Embryology, anatomy and histology of the vagina
58. Role of the vaginal microbiota in the development of cervical cancer
59. Infectious pathology of the vagina

SECTION XIV – Vagina: Benign Pathology and Preneoplastic Lesions

60. Benign pathology and preneoplastic lesions of the vagina

Appendix – COVID-19