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Dr Dariush Nikkhah

Dr Dariush Nikkhah

Daryoush Nikkhah

Plastic surgery 06149896

 

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Overview
Fee assured
Not in Open Referral network

Specialises in

  • Hand surgery
  • Lower limb surgery
  • Paediatric
  • Reconstructive surgery

Offers

  • Face-to-face consultations
  • Video and telephone consultations

About me

Current posts:
Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon
Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust
Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery UCL

Mr Dariush Nikkhah is a fully accredited and Internationally renowned Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon. He is a full member of British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), and holds a substantiative NHS Consultant post at the Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust. He specialises in cosmetic breast surgery, microsurgery and hand surgery.

Mr Nikkhah founded the London Microsurgery Group in 2021 which accepts referrals for complex microsurgical reconstructions after cancer and trauma. He is a leading international specialist in reconstructive microsurgery after cancer and trauma. His private practice is located in North London at St John and Elizabeth Hospital and The Royal Free Private Patients unit and HCA hospitals. Mr Nikkhah has a particular interest and is renowned for microsurgical breast reconstruction with the DIEP flap and TUG flap. In 2024 his team performed 92 free tissue transplants in the NHS and Private Sector.

Mr Nikkhah received his undergraduate degree in Medicine at the University of Southampton. He completed his registrar training in London at The Royal Free, Barts, Great Ormond St Hospital for Children and Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. This was followed by an advanced fellowship in Reconstructive Microsurgery at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia.

Mr Nikkhah's research interests include improving outcomes in reconstructive surgery for patients with cancers of the breast, and soft tissue reconstruction of the hand. He is an Associate Professor at University College London and has given national and international lectures on a broad range of topics related to plastic surgery. He has published more than 167 scientific journal articles. He has written two textbooks on reconstructive surgery with Springer Nature and Thieme. He is on the editorial board for Microsurgery Journal.

Areas of interest

Breast Surgery ; DIEP flap; TUG flap; Cosmetic breast surgery; Abdominoplasty; Liposuction; Arm and thigh reduction; Fat grafting/Lipofilling, Microsurgical breast reconstruction; breast reduction; mastopexy; breast augmentation

Hand surgery; Anterolateral thigh flap; Nerve compressions, Carpal tunnel syndrome; Dupuytren's contracture; ganglions; DeQuervains; trigger finger; tenosynovitis; trigger thumb; mallet finger; arthritis in hand; arthritis in fingers; arthritis in thumb; cubital tunnel syndrome; hand injuries; hand fractures; finger fractures; dislocated finger; skiers thumb; tendon injury; ligament injury, congenital hand; paediatric hand; toe to hand transfer; syndactyly release; duplicate thumb;

Skin Surgery; BCC; SCC; skin cancer; lipoma; cyst; scars; wounds; dermatological surgery; facial plastic surgery; reconstructive surgery, melanoma, Sentinel node biopsy, Groin and Axillary Dissection

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Procedures completed

  • B2999

    Reconstruction of breast using stacked deep inferior epigastric perforator flap (DIEP) (including delayed reconstruction) - unilateral (2 flaps) - (5-50)

    Royal Free Hospital (5-50)

  • B3130

    Unilateral mastopexy (following reconstruction) - (1-5)

    Royal Free Hospital (1-5) Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth (1-5)

  • S0653

    Removal of benign lesion in muscle or deeper tissue (excluding lipoma) - (1-5)

    Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth (1-5)

  • T7604

    Vein/artery graft as part of microvascular free tissue transfer - (1-5)

    Royal Free Hospital (1-5)

  • T5900

    Excision of ganglion - (1-5)

    Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth (1-5)

  • S0602

    Primary excision of malignant lesion - Head & Neck - (1-5)

    Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth (1-5) Royal Free Hospital (1-5)

  • S5710

    Debridement of wound (and surgical toilet) - up to 25cm2 in area - (1-5)

    Royal Free Hospital (1-5)

  • S1750

    Large muscle flap (9cm2 or more) (including skin graft and closure of secondary defect) - (1-5)

  • S6043

    Scar revision over 5cm - trunk & limbs - (1-5)

    Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth (1-5)

  • W2830

    Removal of internal fixation from bone / joint, excluding K-wires +/- image guidance - (1-5)

  • S0656

    Removal of lipoma - (1-5)

    Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth (1-5)

  • S3532

    Split autograft of skin, trunk and limbs - each additional 5% of body surface area - (1-5)

    Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth (1-5)

  • S0603

    Primary excision of malignant lesion - Trunk & Limbs - (1-5)

    Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth (1-5)

  • B3580

    Nipple areola complex reconstruction +/- liposuction and fat transfer - (1-5)

    Royal Free Hospital (1-5)

  • T7603

    Microvascular free tissue transfer (as sole procedure including closure of secondary defect) - (1-5)

    Royal Free Hospital (1-5)

  • A6510

    Carpal tunnel release (open) - (1-5)

  • B2986

    Reconstruction of breast using deep inferior epigastric perforator flap (DIEP) (including delayed reconstruction) - unilateral (single flap) - (1-5)

  • S3100

    Re-exploration of free flap - (1-5)

  • S5730

    Surgical toilet and debridement of deep wound (including traumatic or post-operative aetiology) - (1-5)

    Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth (1-5)

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