At one time the young Sardinian doctors who wanted to specialize in plastic surgery were forced to leave the island to go and train in the peninsula. Today, however, the trend is the opposite: Cagliari has in fact become the national and international reference point in the training network of young plastic surgeons. “The protagonist of this small exploit - explains Aou - is the Complex Structure of Plastic Surgery and Microsurgery which has been active for four years in the capital, under the guidance of Professor Andrea Figus.
"The Reconstructive Plastic Surgery of the Polyclinic - emphasizes the hospital - has distinguished itself for a number and frequency of complex interventions, such as breast and head and neck reconstruction with microsurgical flaps, which has attracted the interest of many young people surgeons who want to develop and improve their skills.These are Reconstructive Microsurgery interventions that consist in the transplantation of the patient's own tissues, from one site to another, to reconstruct the anatomical structures subjected to oncological or post-traumatic ablations. particular, Cagliari is the leader at a national level, and one of the most important centers at an international level, for breast reconstruction with the PAP flap. It is a flap taken from the medial portion of the thigh that ensures patients a very natural result and with the scars of the sampling area easily hidden in the region of the subgluteal sulcus ".
"By now - explains Andrea Figus - we have a continuous flow of doctors in training in Plastic Surgery who from the peninsula and other European cities decide to carry out their period of specialized 'extra-network' training in Sardinia, to learn these innovative and complex techniques : doctors come from Palermo, Padua, Trieste, Rome, Genoa, but also from Ireland. This is a prestigious recognition, which actually testifies to the great work carried out in recent years by the Cagliari university hospital ”.
(Unioneonline / lf)
