Case Competition — Danish Open
The annual international competition for the best step-by-step surgical cases.
Winners 2026
International
Split Perforator Flaps for bilateral ankle defects
Luisa Lotter, Marta Jezierska, Ilja W. Käch, Volker J. Schmidt
HOCH, Cantonal Hospital, St. Gallen, Switzerland
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
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
A Hella Lamella: A Three-Flap, Full-Thickness Lower Eyelid Reconstruction
Sondre F. Koren & Jette B. Løvenwald
Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark
Closure of defect on ala nasi with modified shark island flap
Mickie Bang Christensen & Magnus Avnstorp
Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark
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
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
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
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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