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Contact data

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgical Sciences
School of Medicine, University of Insubria, Italy
Tel: +390332278450
Fax: +390332260260
E-mail: gianlorenzo.dionigi@uninsubria.it

 

Biography

Dr. Gianlorenzo Dionigi was born in 1974 in Pavia, son of Renzo and Janet Hesselbrock. He graduated in Medicine in 2000.
During his residency in General Surgery he visited the following Centers:

  • University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Surgery, Surgical Center, Director: Hideaki Saito (1996)
  • Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Director: Shigeki Hitomi (1996)
  • Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Director: Jun Nakajima (1996)
  • Department of Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Director: Hidetaka Mochizuki, 3-2 Namiki Tokorozawa, Saitama 359 Japan (2000)
  • Department of Digestive and Endocrine Surgery, Hopital Civil, European Institute of TeleSurgery; Director: Pr. J. Marescaux (2001)
  • The Northern Oesophago Gastric Unit, Royal Victoria Infirmary at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Director SM Griffin (2002)
  • Department of General Surgery, University of Pisa, Director Prof. Paolo Miccoli (2004)
  • San Paolo University (Brasil) - Medicine Faculty - Sirio Libanes Hospital Brasile Director Prof. Dr. Lenine Garcia Brandao (November 2004)

In 2005, he returned to the Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Insubria, under the supervision of Professor Renzo Dionigi, and completed surgical training in General Surgery with a final score of 50/50 cum laude

 

Qualifications and awards

Assistant Professor in General Surgery, University of Insubria –Varese
 

Research interests

Dr. Gianlorenzo Dionigi is involved in several clinical research studies on surgical techniques for thyroid and upper gastrointestinal surgery. He has also performed experimental research on kidney and pancreas transplantation.
 

Teaching experience and appointments

Dr. Gianlorenzo Dionigi has been appointed as Assistant Professor in Surgery by the University of Insubria in Varese, where he is currently giving lecturers to medical students, nurses as well as physiotherapists.
 

Representative  publications

1. Boni L, Benevento A, Dionigi G, Dionigi R. Primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus. A case report. Surg endosc. 2002 feb;16(2): pag 359-60.

2. Boni L, Benevento A, Dionigi G, L. Cabrini, Dionigi R. Primary pancreatic lymphoma. Surg endosc. 2002 jul;16(7): pag 1107-8.

3. Benevento A, Boni L, Dionigi G, Ferrari A, Dionigi R. Emergency laparoscopic splenectomy for “wandering” (pelvic) spleen case report and review of the literature on laparoscopic approach to splenic diseases. Surg endosc. 2002 sep;16(9):pag 1364-5.

4. Boni L, Benevento A, Cabrini L, Dionigi G, Dionigi R. A case of primary melanoma of the esophagus. J. Am. Coll. Surg, 2002, 194, (6): pag 840

5. Carcano G, Rovera F, Boni L, Dionigi G, Uccella L, Dionigi R. Idiopathic sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis:a case report. Chirurgia italiana 2003; 55: pag 605-608

6. Besana I, Boni L, Benevento A, Dionigi G, Dionigi R. Outcome and long term results of surgical resection for gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gist). Scand J. Surg 2003;92: 195-199

7. Benevento A, Boni L, Besana I, Dionigi G, Dionigi R. Multiple hemangiomas of the appendix and liver. J Am Coll Surg 2003 vol 197, no. 3: 860-861

8. Boni L, Benevento A, Dionigi G, Dionigi R. A new device for bleeding control and blunt dissection in minimally invasive surgery. Surg endosc. 2003 feb;17(2):282-4.

9. Benevento A, Boni L, Dionigi G, Carcano G, Capella C, Capriata G, Casula G, Dettori G, Dionigi R. The mesenteric and antimesenteric location of colorectal cancer: the relationship with lymph nodes metastases. The Surgeon – Surg J R Coll Surg Edinb Irel 2004 2 (3): 125-136

10. Dionigi G, Bacuzzi A, Boni L, Rovera F, Piantanida E, Tanda ML, Diurni M, Carcano G, Bartalena L, Cuffari S, Dionigi R. Influence of new technologies on thyroid surgery: state of the art - Expert Review of Medical Devices. Future Drugs 2005; (2)5: 547-557

11. Rovera F, Diurni M, Dionigi G, Boni L, Ferrari A, Carcano G, Dionigi R. Antibiotic prophylaxis in colorectal surgery. Expert Rev Anti Infect ther. 2005 oct;3(5):787-95.

12. Boni L, Benevento L, Dionigi G, Rovera F, Diurni M, Dionigi R. Injection of colorectal cancer cells in mesenteric and antimesenteric sides of the colon results in different patterns of metastatic diffusion: an experimental study in rats. World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2005, 3:69 (19oct2005)

13. Dionigi R, Benevento A, Dionigi G, Boni L, Albarello L, C Capella. Analyses of the prognostic factors in colorectal cancer: preliminary results of a possible new prognostic factor: mesenteric and antimesenteric tumor location. In advances in abdominal surgery.farinon a. Eds. 2002 kluwer academic publishers, netherlands. Chapter 14; 203-211.

14. Benevento A, Boni L, Dionigi G, Dionigi R. Hepatic metastases from non colorectal cancer: which ones should be resected? In advances in abdominal surgery.farinon a. Eds. 2002 kluwer academic publishers, netherlands. Chapter 8; 115-126.
 

Clinical interests

Dr. Gianlorenzo Dionigi is an active member of the surgical staff of the Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Insubria (Head professor Renzo Dionigi). He is mainly involved in minimally invasive procedures for thyroid surgery as well as several elective and emergency procedures. To date, he has performed more than 150 surgical procedures as first surgeon (half on moderate/major minimally invasive surgery) and many more as assistant.

 

 
   
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