ABOUT CLISTER

- Clinical Surgical Trials Epidemiological Research

Clister is a research group focusing on near patient surgical research. Our front line targets are advanced abdominal wall surgery and ostomy issues connected to malignant and benign disease. We study new screening methods, new surgical methods and new evaluation methods.

Within the field of proctology we handle the areas of abscesses, fistulas and incontinence. The methodologies we use are randomized studies, targeted clinical investigations, epidemiology, survey studies and collecting and analyzing biological material.

The research group leader, Ulf Gunnarsson, is a professor at the Department of Surgery at Umeå University, which is the starting point for a large amount of our research. Many of the studies within the group are national multicenter studies. We also have several Nordic cooperations.

Recent publications

Reliability and validity of surface EMG assessments combined with isometric muscle strength testing in patients with abdominal rectus diastasis and asymptomatic controls

Swedenhammar E, Wahlström O, Brandt JD, Strigård K, Häger C, Stark B, Nyberg A

Hernia. 2024 Jun 8. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 38850377. DOI: 10.1007/s10029-024-03076-y

Sequelae Treatment Needs Following Peripheral Facial Palsy: Retrospective Analysis of 525 Patients

Ohm R, Stark B, Brännström F, Marsk E

Otol Neurotol. 2024 Mar 21. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 38509809. DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000004162

Sporadic deficient mismatch repair in colorectal cancer increases the risk for non-colorectal malignancy: A European multicenter cohort study

Gkekas I, Jan N, Kaprio T, Beilmann-Lehtonen I, Fabian P, Tavelin B, Böckelman C, Edin S, Strigård K, Svoboda T, Hagström J, Barsova L, Jirasek T, Haglund C, Palmqvist R, Gunnarsson U

J Surg Oncol. 2024 Jun;129(7):1295-1304. Epub 2024 Mar 12.

PMID: 38470492 DOI:10.1002/jso.27619

Impact of parastomal hernia on colostomy costs at 1year: Secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial (STOMAMESH)

Odensten C, Gunnarsson U, Johansson J, Näsvall P

Scand J Surg. 2024 Mar;113(1):33-39.

PMID: 37563916 DOI:10.1177/14574969231188021

Evaluation of Extracellular Matrix Remodeling in Full-thickness Skin Grafts in Mice

Tjust AE, Hellman U, Giannopoulos A, Winsnes A, Strigård K, Gunnarsson U

Journal of Histochem Cytochem. 2024 Jan 24:221554231225995

PMID: 38264898 DOI:10.1369/00221554231225995

Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair: early follow-up of a randomized controlled study of primary fascial closure before mesh placement

Silfvenius A, Lindmark M, Tall J, Österberg J, Strigård K, Thorell A, Gunnarsson U.