Dr Piñal, first Spanish surgeon elected as an honorary member of the Australian Hand Surgery Society
The distinction recognizes Piñal’s medical career and his close personal and professional ties with Australia. The Australian Hand Surgery Society (AHSS) has appointed Dr Francisco del Piñal as an honorary member. Piñal, a fellow in microsurgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital at the beginning of his career, is the first Spanish surgeon to receive this […]
Impaction syndrome: removal of ulnar pain by arthroscopic resection
The patient, 43, suffers from a combined ulnar impaction syndrome in his right wrist caused by the excess length of the ulna and ulnar styloid, which collide with the carpal area. More specifically, the head of the ulna surpasses the edge of the radius and impacts against the lunate bone and the styloid, bigger than […]
Triangular fibrocartilage rupture and ulnar styloid fracture: dry arthroscopy surgery
The patient, 19, presents instability in the left wrist and pain at its ulnar edge. The symptoms, which limit its functionality, appear after a second injury (he had suffered a previous wrist fracture in childhood) and have their origin in a pseudoarthrosis of the ulnar styloid and the rupture of the insertion of the triangular […]
Dr Piñal, head of the hand surgery and microsurgery unit at Hospital Vithas Madrid La Milagrosa
The surgeon highlights his «commitment to technology and the highest care quality». La Milagrosa
Dr Bartolomé Beltrán interviews the Spanish surgeon Francisco Piñal in La Sexta’s program «What’s wrong Dr?»
Beltrán and Piñal address various aspects of upper limb surgery such as wrist fractures, reconstructive microsurgery or Sudeck’s syndrome for around half an hour.
Sport injuries in hand and wrist in professional and amateur athletes
The upper limb, especially the hand-wrist conjunction, is prone to injuries linked to sports practice, whether professional or amateur. The reason: its key role in most of the disciplines, either in an ‘executing’ function -as in tennis, basketball or other throwing/hitting sports- or a ‘helper’ one, as it’s the case in soccer and various contact sports in which, besides […]
Del Piñal participates in the lecturer panel of a course on wrist disorders at the Mayo Clinic
This training is integrated into the program of the Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development
Triangular fibrocartilage injury: surgery on posterior tear
The triangular fibrocartilage is in the ulnar side of the wrist and is a major cause of pain in the area. This diagnostic label can include up to 60 different pathologies in just one square centimeter of body surface (1). A tear in the fibrocartilage, which may appear in many forms, is one of the most […]
Dr. Del Piñal in the list of foreign lecturers of the 4th Nordic Wrist Arthroscopy Course
This technical training event took place in Copenhagen last 2nd and 3rd December
Del Piñal takes part in the conference ‘Challenges and Controversies in Hand Surgery’, held in London
The Spanish surgeon was among the international speakers at this event organized by the Anglia Ruskin University and the Saint Andrews Center for Plastic Surgery London hosted last 7th and 8th November the medical meeting ‘Challenges and Controversies in Hand Surgery’, promoted by the Anglia Ruskin University and St Andrews Centre for Plastic Surgery, with […]