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Case Competition 2026 · JPBRS

Case Competition 2026

The 2026 JPBRS Case Competition winners across the International, Danish and Trauma tracks, judged by leading plastic surgeons.

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Prizes

1st place: 500 USD 2nd place: 200 USD 3rd place: 100 USD

Rules

Submit 1 November – 28 February. 1) Obtain written patient consent. 2) Document the procedure with step-by-step photos and video. 3) Create a user, log in and submit your case at jpbrs.com including the signed patient consent.

Top 3 International Cases 2026

Top 3 Danish Cases 2026

Top 3 Trauma Cases 2026

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Open for submissions

Case Competition 2027

2027 · Deadline: March 31, 2027

Tracks: International, Danish, Trauma

The top 3 cases will be published without an article processing charge (APC).

1st place · 68 points

Case 19 2026: Split Perforator Flaps for bilateral ankle defects: A modern microsurgical approach to preserve function and reduce secondary thinning operations

Luisa Lotter¹, Marta Jezierska¹, Ilja W. Käch¹, Volker J. Schmidt¹ — Hospital St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland

2nd place · 65 points

Case 21 2026: Reconstructing the Challenging Eyelid: Hard Palate Graft and Radial Forearm Free Flap Reconstruction in Gorlin–Goltz Syndrome

Miss Ketki Kaushal, Mr Oliver Bassett

3rd place · 60 points

Case 13 2026: 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, Stony Brook, New York

1st place · 63 points

Case 08 2026: A Hella Lamella: A Three-Flap, Full-Thickness Lower Eyelid Reconstruction

Sondre F. Koren, Jette B. Løvenwald — Roskilde, SUH

2nd place · 60 points

Case 12 2026: Closure of defect on ala nasi with modified shark island flap

Mickie Bang Christensen, Magnus Avnstorp — Department of Plastic- & Breast Surgery, Zealand University Hospital Roskilde, Denmark

3rd place · 60 points

Case 16 2026: Severe Foot Degloving Injury Following a Forklift Crush: A Limb-Salvage Case

Cecilie Jansen, Emil Villiam Holm-Rasmussen, Mette Stueland Wolthers — University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark

1st place · 59 points

Case 03 2026: 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 — Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey; Department of Plastic, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

2nd place · 58 points

Case 24 2026: 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

3rd place · 57 points

Case 10 2026: Propeller Flap Based on Two Perforators of the Scapular Artery for the Management of a Severely Traumatized Upper Extremity

Nelson Ramirez Lozano — Hospital de Santa Sofía Manizales, Colombia. Alejandro Angelillis Osorio. Surgical Assistant, Oncologos de Occidente, Manizales, Colombia

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