Cheng-Hong Lin

Specialties 

  • Upper and Lower Limb Reconstruction
  • Hand surgery
  • Allo-composite Transplantation (Upper Limb and Face Transplantation)
  • General Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
  • Laser Surgery.

Fluent Languages

  • Mandarin ,English ,Taiwanese Hokkien

Current Position

  • Attending Physician, Craniofacial Center, Department of Plastic Surgery
  • Director, Department of Plastic Surgery , Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
  • Attending Physician, Department of Plastic Surgery, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
  • Professor, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
  • Associate Professor, Chang Gung University
  • Secretary-General, 21st Term, Taiwan Society of Plastic Surgery
  • Director, 17th Term, Taiwan Society for Surgery of the Hand
  • Executive Director, 4th Term, Taiwan Society for Microsurgical Reconstruction

Education

  • Chang Gung Medical University, Medical Department
  • Master's in Business Administration, National Chengchi University (NCCU)

Experience

  • Director, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
  • Researcher in Allo-Composite Transplantation, University of Pittsburgh
  • Researcher in Allo-Composite Transplantation, Johns Hopkins University

Certifications

  • Taiwan Society of Plastic Surgery
  • Taiwan Society of Surgery
  • Taiwan Society of Hand Surgery
  • Taiwan Society for Microsurgical Reconstruction
  • Specialist and Supervisor in Critical Care Surgery

Publications 

  • The Challenging/Creative Replant (Chapter xx)
  • Reconstruction of the Weight-Bearing Heel (Chapter 74)
  • The Role of Free Tissue Transfers in Lower Extremity Reconstruction (Chapter 21)
  • A Serial Venous Flap for Reconstruction of Two Separate Defects on A Finger.
  • Survival and Secondary Surgery Following Lower Extremity Replantation.
  • The Neck as a Preferred Recipient Site for Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation in the Mouse.
  • Saving an Open Frontobasal Fracture with Brain Herniation by Urgent Microsurgical Free Flap Transfer.
  • Urinary Excretion of Oxidative Damage Markers in a Rat Model of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation.
  • Vascularized Osteomyocutaneous Allografts are Permissive to Tolerance by Induction-Based Immunomodulatory Therapy.
  • The Pedicled Posterior Tibial Artery Perforator Flap for Lower Leg and Foot Reconstruction.
  • A New Classification to Aid the Selection of Revascularization Techniques in Major Degloving Injuries of the Upper Limb.
  • Opponensplasty provides predictable opposable tripod pinch in toe transfer for proximal thumb ray defect reconstruction.
  • Hemiface Allotransplantation in the Mouse.
  • Primary free functioning muscle transfer for fingers with accompanying tendon transfer for thumb provide one-stage upper extremity composite reconstruction in acute open wound.
  • Efficient Design of Split Anterior Lateral Thigh Flap in Extremity Reconstruction.
  • The Peroneal Artery Perforator-Based Propeller Flap for Distal Lower Limb Reconstruction.
  • Biologics and donor bone marrow cells for targeted immunomodulation in vascularized composite allotransplantation: a translational trial in swine.
  • CD4-CD8- Double Negative Regulatory T Cell Based Therapy Permits Permanent Engraftment in Mouse CTA Model.
  • Brandacher, G., Zheng, X. X. Donor HSCs from the Bone Component of CTA Migrate to Recipient Thymus and Differentiate to Mature T Cells.
  • CD4-CD8- Double Negative Regulatory T Cell Based Therapy Induces Donor-Specific Tolerance in Mouse Composite Tissue Allotransplantation Model.
  • Selection of the Recipient Vein in Microvascular Flap Reconstruction of the Lower Extremity: Analysis of 362 Free Tissue Transfers.
  • The Medial Sural Artery Perforator Flap: A Versatile Donor Site for Hand Reconstruction.
  • Versatility of the Pedicled Peroneal Artery Perforator Flaps for Soft-Tissue Coverage of the Lower Leg and Foot Defects.
  • Mouse Hind Limb Transplantation: A New Composite Tissue Allotransplantation Model Using Nonsuture Supermicrosurgery.
  • Arterial and Venous Revascularization with Bifurcation of Single Central Artery: A Reliable Strategy for Tamai Zone I Replantation.
  • The Shunt-Restricted Arterialized Venous Flap for Hand/Digit Reconstruction: Enhanced Perfusion, Decreased Congestion, and Improved Reliability.
  • Hand and Finger Replantation after Protracted Ischemia (More than 24 Hours).
  • One-stage Posttraumatic Bladder Reconstruction and Soft-tissue Coverage of the Lower Abdomen or Perineum.
  • Pedicled Peroneal Artery Perforator Flap for Reconstruction of Soft Tissue Defect over Tibia (video)
  • Replantation of a Degloved Hand with Added Arteriovenous Anastomoses: Report of Two Cases.
  • Antegrade Venous Drainage in a Reverse-Flow Anterolateral Thigh Flap.
  • Lin, C. H.*, Tang, P. L., Lin, C. H.
  • Second Toe Extensor Digitorum Brevis Provides a Simultaneous Abductorplasty to Free Vascularized Metatarsophalangeal Joint Transfer for Post-traumatic Thumb Composite Metacarpophalangeal Joint Defect.
  • Vascularized Groin Lymph Node Transfer Using the Wrist As a Recipient Site for Management of Postmastectomy Upper Extremity Lymphedema.
  • Using Modified Shoelace Technique in Closing Wounds Other than Fasciotomies
  • Tensor fasciae latae perforator free flap as a backup procedure for an anterolateral thigh flap.
  • Sternocleidomastoid Muscle Flap: an Option to Seal off the Esophageal Leakage after Free Jejunal Flap Transfer - a Case Report.
  • Reconstruction of Midline Abdominal Wall Defect with Muscle Partition.
  • Replantation of the Great Toe: Review of 20 Cases.
  • Split Second- and Third-Toe Transplantation in Mutilating-Hand-Injury Reconstruction.
  • Fourteen Cases of Free Thenar Flap: A Rare Indication in Digital Reconstruction.
  • Osteoplastic Thumb Ray Restoration with or without Secondary Toe Transfer for Reconstruction of Opposable Basic Hand Function.
  • Functional Assessment of the Reconstructed Fingertips after Free Toe Pulp Transfer.
  • Internal mammary vessels as a recipient site for free-flap breast reconstruction in Asian women: a study based on preoperative sonography and surgical approach.
  • Clinical and ultrasonographic characteristics of breast metastases from extramammary malignancies
  • Breast metastasis from uterine leiomyosarcoma: a case report.