Patrick Addison a Consultant Plastic Surgeon in Edinburgh, Scotland with responsibility for adult and paediatric services at St John's Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. He has a specialist interest in cancer and trauma reconstruction, facial reanimation and paediatric plastic surgery and burns.  He has published extensively and presents regularly at international conferences. Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.

JOURNAL REVIEWED: PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY – Oct 2013 - Nov 2014

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Aesthetic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery: solving complications and avoiding unfavourable results

At just over 200 pages this American textbook features chapters covering aspects of aesthetic breast surgery including developmental asymmetry, mastopexy, gynaecomastia and breast reduction although a chapter on breast augmentation is conspicuous by its absence.The bulk of the text is...


Essentials of Plastic Surgery, Second Edition

One of a few ‘concise’ plastic surgery texts, this recently revised second edition includes over 1300 pages of well written, illustrated and referenced text in 102 core chapters including 13 new chapters covering such topics as perforator flaps, facial and...


Fat grafting as therapy for Raynaud’s

The authors have adapted the technique of lipo-filling, previously described for rejuvenation of the hand, to achieve symptom reduction in patients with primary and secondary Raynaud’s that had previously failed to respond to medical treatments. The majority of the subjects...