Helios Hospital Berlin-Zehlendorf


Head of the Department
Dr. Uwe von Fritschen
Department of Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery
Department of Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery at Helios Hospital Berlin-Zehlendorf offers the patients the most modern techniques of plastic surgery and aesthetic interventions as well as complex microsurgical reconstructions. The department works in close cooperation with the Departments of Hand Surgery and Pediatric Hand Surgery. One of the main focuses is the reconstruction of the breast as it’s a competence center for breast reconstruction. The center works closely with the Breast Center of the Clinic of Berlin-Buch, the Breast Center Waldfriede, and the Breast Center in the Sankt Gertrauden Hospital. The department is well-equipped with the latest equipment to ensure the success of modern procedures such as DIEP (Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator), S-Gap, and SIEA flaps.
Under the guidance of Dr. med. Uwe von Fritschen, the Department of Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery at Helios Hospital Berlin-Zehlendorf is specialized in:
- Breast correction in women and men
- Breast reconstructive procedures
- Treatment of lymphedema
- Correction of genital organs
- Facelifting
- Eyelid correction and tightening
- Correction of nose
- Ear correction
- Lips corrections
- Wrinkle treatment
- Liposuction
- Abdominoplasty
- Skin tightening
- 1984–1991 Study of human medicine at the University of Hamburg
- 1991–1994 Advanced training, AK Altona, Hamburg, Department of General, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
- 1994–1996 Training in plastic surgery at the University of Pernambuco, Brazil (Prof. Dr L. Leite, Dr R. Perreira)
- 1996–1997 Assistant physician, AK Altona, Hamburg, Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery and Department of Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery
- 1998 Assistant Physician, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Department of General and Thoracic Surgery
- 1999–2001 Certification as a specialist in surgery and trauma surgery, Senior Physician for the Department of Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, AK Altona, Hamburg
- 2001 Clinic for Plastic Surgery, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Markus Hospital, Frankfurt
- 2003 Certification as a specialist in plastic surgery
- 2004–2007 Chief Senior Physician and Deputy Director of the Clinic for Plastic Surgery, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Markus Hospital, Frankfurt
- 2006 Certification as a specialist physician in plastic and aesthetic surgery
- 2007–present Chief Physician of the Division for Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, Hand Surgery, at the Helios Clinic Emil von Behring, Berlin-Zehlendorf