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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­Plastic Surgery Volume 1: Principles

This volume thoroughly covers the basic principles of plastic surgery beginning with an overview of key developments as well as the innovative personalities and their contribution to the detailed history of this specialty. Whilst the next few chapters are principally...


Plastic Surgery:6-Volume Set, 3rd Edition

This third edition of the great Plastic Surgery volumes was published last year and is now edited by Peter Neligan. It follows those previous works of Converse, McCarthy and Mathes in bringing together a wealth of expertise and knowledge combined...


Evidence based review of management for common head and neck cancers

As part of the PRS evidence based review series, this well written review summarises the up-to-date knowledge regarding the surgical and non-surgical management of the common facial skin cancers. The review is limited to BCC, SCC, MM and Merkel Cell...