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

The impact of a patient's social network on emergency surgery for colon cancer.

Blind N, Gunnarsson U, Strigård K, Brännström F.

European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2023 Feb

PMID: 36243648. DOI:10.1016/j.ejso.2022.09.019

Skeletal Muscle-Derived Cell Implantation for the Treatment of Fecal Incontinence: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study

Frudinger A, Gauruder-Burmester A, Graf W, Lehmann J-P, Gunnarsson U, Mihov M, Ihnát P, Kosorok P, Orhalmi J, Slauf P, Emmanuel A, Hristov V, Jungwirthova A, Lehur P-A, Müller A, Amort M, Marksteiner R, Thurner M

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2023 Feb

PMID: 35961715 DOI:10.1016/j.cgh.2022.07.039

Do postoperative complications correlate to chronic pain following inguinal hernia repair? A prospective cohort study from the Swedish Hernia Register

Olsson A, Sandblom G, Franneby U, Sondén A, Gunnarsson U, Dahlstrand U

Hernia, 2023 Feb

PMID: 34894341 DOI:10.1007/s10029-021-02545-y

Use of endoanal ultrasound in detecting obstetric anal sphincter injury immediately after birth

Huber M, Larsson C, Harrysson M, Strigård K, Lehmann J-P, Nordin P, Tunón K

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologia Scandinavica, 2023 Jan 22

PMID: 36683208 DOI:10.1111/aogs.14514

Improved assessment of fecal incontinence in women with previous obstetric injury combining Low Anterior Resection Syndrome and Wexner scores

Almkvist L, Gunnarsson U, Strigård K