Case Competition — Danish Open

The annual international competition for the best step-by-step surgical cases.

Winners 2026

International

#168.2 pt

Split Perforator Flaps for bilateral ankle defects

Luisa Lotter, Marta Jezierska, Ilja W. Käch, Volker J. Schmidt

HOCH, Cantonal Hospital, St. Gallen, Switzerland

#264.9 pt

Reconstructing the Challenging Lower Eyelid: Hard Palate Graft and Radial Forearm Free Flap Reconstruction in Gorlin–Goltz Syndrome

Ketki Kaushal & Oliver Bassett

James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, England

#360.4 pt

Fillet Flap Reconstruction Following Hemicorporectomy for Recurrent High-Grade Gluteal Sarcoma

Isha Joshi, Zachary Erlichman, Nia Nikkhahmanesh, Christina Chopra, Jason Ganz

Stony Brook University Hospital, New York

Danish

#163.45 pt

A Hella Lamella: A Three-Flap, Full-Thickness Lower Eyelid Reconstruction

Sondre F. Koren & Jette B. Løvenwald

Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark

#259.67 pt

Closure of defect on ala nasi with modified shark island flap

Mickie Bang Christensen & Magnus Avnstorp

Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark

#359.56 pt

Severe Foot Degloving Injury Following a Forklift Crush: A Limb-Salvage Case

Cecilie Jansen, Emil Villiam Holm-Rasmussen, Mette Stueland Wolthers

Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark

Trauma

#158.9 pt

Emergency limb salvage with combined free vastus lateralis and anterolateral thigh flap after post-traumatic brachial artery graft thrombosis in a 16-year-old patient

Ibrahim Güler & Cenk Demirdöver

Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir & Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg

#257.8 pt

Ipsilateral Myocutaneous Latissimus Dorsi Flap for Traumatic Upper Limb Soft Tissue and Vascular Injury Following Road Traffic Accident

Sumaira Sattar

SMBB Institute of Trauma, Karachi, Pakistan

#357.2 pt

Propeller Flap Based on Two Perforators of the Scapular Artery for the Management of a Severely Traumatized Upper Extremity

Nelson Ramirez Lozano & Alejandro Angelillis Osorio

Oncólogos de Occidente, Hospital de Santa Sofía Manizales, Colombia

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