Plastic Surgery

Plastic Surgery includes the following three research areas:

Burn Care

A burn injury is a good model for understanding the response to a severe trauma, viewed from a short as well as a long perspective. The disastrous experience of being afflicted with an extensive burn injury affects all main integrating systems in the body.

Burn Care

Craniofacial Surgery Research Programme

This research programme gathers clinical research projects around two principal problem areas: craniofacial malformations and facial trauma. The research is driven by a multidisciplinary and cross-professional group within Uppsala Craniofacial Centre of Excellence (länk enligt ovan) and is integrated with Uppsala university hospital’s assignment for National Specialised Care in Craniofacial Surgery.

Craniofacial surgery Research Programme

Reconstructive Microsurgery

Within the area of reconstructive microsurgery several research projects are carried out;

1. Clinical Applied Anatomical Studies in Face transplantation and Facial Paralysis,
2. Virtual Planning in Microvascular Head and Neck Reconstruction,
3. Clinical Studies in Facial Paralysis,
4. Cancer Recurrence after Breast Reconstruction,
5. Lymphoedema – risk of and treatment of lymphedema and
6. Quality of Life, Patient satisfaction and Optimizing resources in Breast reconstruction

• Reconstructive Microsurgery

The programs are primarily patient-based and success is heavily related to an adequate number of patients and consequently the size of the scientifically active staff.

Uppsala University Hospital has been appointed national specialised care center for craniofacial surgery, severe burns, facial palsy surgery and lymphoedema surgery. This has guaranteed a solid basis for research to thrive.