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Finland is a small Nordic country situated in the eastern
corner of Scandinavia.
Throughout history, Finland was often ruled by either
one of its powerful neighbours, until 1917, when the
country became an independent republic. Finland was
the first country in the world to allow females into the
parliament and the second country in the world to give
women the right to vote (1906).
The national Society: The Finnish Association of
Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (Chirurgi
Plastici Fenniae) was founded in 1957 and nowadays
holds 128 members, out of which about 70 are actively
practicing, fully licensed members. Two thirds of the
active members work in public hospitals, some with
a little private practice on the side. One third of the
Finnish plastic surgeons work full time to cover a small,
yet steadily increasing market of cosmetic surgery.
With 4 annual meetings this small but, active society
keeps up good standards and close collaboration among
its members. Knowing each other well is mostly a
strength.
Plastic Surgery related research gives the foundation to
good clinical practice and supporting research among
our members is one of the goals of the Society. The crop
of papers from our last National meeting in November
2010 was huge and it was a hard job to put them in order.
The following papers were chosen to the top three:
How to Assess Scar Hypertrophy? A Comparison
of Subjective Scales and Spectrocutometry – A New
Objective Method.
I.Kaartinen, P.Välisuo, V. Bochko, J. Alander H.
Kuokkanen
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Finnish Association of Plastic, Reconstructive
and Aesthetic Surgery (CPF)
Department of Plastic Surgery, Tampere University
Hospital
Bilateral Progressive Facial Paralysis and Cutis Laxa
caused by Gelsolin Amyloidosis- From Symptoms to
Treatment
T.Pihlamaa, J.Rautio, S.Kiuru-Enari, S.Suominen.
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and
Department of Neurology Helsinki University Hospital
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Lymph Node
Transplant Therapy after Axillary Lymphnode Removal-
Effect on local immunology in Mice.
P.Hartiala 1,2,3, M.Visuri 1,3, S.Ylä-Herttuala4,
E.Suominen1, K.Alitalo5, S.Jalkanen3, A.Saaristo1.
Department of Plastic Surgery and Department of
Microbiology and Immunology Turku University
Hospital, Satakunta Central Hospital, Medicity
Reasearch Laboratories, A.I.Virtanen Institute,
University of Eastern Finland and Department of
Cancer- and Molecular Biology, Biomedicum, University
of Helsinki.
The tradition of microsurgery in Finland goes back to the
70s, with pioneers like Sirpa Asko-Seljavaara and Simo
Vilkki having set the pace. Our small country of only 5
million people is therefore extremely proud to host the
6th, and largest so far, World Society for Reconstructive
Microsurgery, WSRM, in Helsinki, from June 29th to
July 2nd , 2011. Welcome to Helsinki!
The Finnish Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and
Aesthetic Surgery
Tarja Niemi, President
tarja.niemi@tyks.fi
Susanna Kauhanen, Secretary
susanna.kauhanen@hus.fi