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.
Patient diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy: healing by means of diagnostic correction and surgery
The patient, Camelia, 46, who works as a cook, suffers from very intense pain, lack of function and numbness in her dominant hand, the left; all diagnosed as reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy. After several months, she attends the clinic of Dr. Piñal who cures her, after accurately identifying the pathology of origin and […]
Dr Piñal: «There are many patients labeled as sick of reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s dystrophy who actually suffer from a pathology that we haven’t been able to identify»
As a result of his research work, Dr. Piñal believes that after diagnoses of reflex sympathetic dystrophy, we find diagnostic mistakes and lack of knowledge of a hidden pathology. In turn, he has identified that around 20% of these cases can be addressed as neurostenalgies and forms of dynamic compression of the median nerve.
Dr Piñal participates in the international panel of speakers of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Indian Society for Surgery of the Hand
Francisco del Piñal was the only Spanish surgeon in the foreign teaching team of the meeting.
Dr. Piñal, international guest speaker at the congresses of the American and Indian societies for hand surgery
The Spanish surgeon will discuss the latest advances in his areas of specialization in the cities of Boston (USA) and Coimbatore (India). Piñal The 73rd annual meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) will be held in the state capital of Massachusetts from September 13 to 15 at the Hynes Convention […]
In-depth interview with Dr Piñal in ‘Directivos y empresas’ (‘Directors and Companies’)
‘Directivos y empresas’, a monthly economy magazine aimed at private sector managers and executives, includes an extensive in-depth interview with Dr Piñal, in which he reviews his professional career and the evolution of his medical discipline. The Spanish surgeon responds to questions such as the development of wrist surgery since the nineties, the validity of […]
Thumb reconstruction by microsurgery after accidental amputation
The patient, male, suffers the amputation of his right hand’s thumb and a serious damage to the surrounding tissue and musculoskeletal structure. The impact, caused by an accident with a fan, requires the design of a microsurgical procedure by Dr Piñal. thumb reconstruction The problem The pre-operative scenario clearly shows the disabling consequences of […]
Neurocutaneous Toe Free Flap with Pulp
Francisco del Piñal, M.D., Dr. Med. ASSH Surgical Anatomy: Flap Reconstruction chapter 43 313-320, 2018. Edited by Kevin C. Chung, MD, MS and Steven L. Moran, MD – Copyright © 2018 American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH (full text pdf. below) Neurocutaneous Toe Free Flap with Pulp Soft tissue reconstruction of the fingers […]
Congenital hand differences: surgical answers to functional and aesthetic problems in children (II)
Second entry of Dr Piñal’s blog in his series dedicated to the formation problems of the upper limb in newborns: ‘Congenital hand differences: surgical answers to functional and aesthetic problems in children’ (II). Malformation of the hand
Congenital hand differences: surgical answers to functional and aesthetic problems in children (I)
Under the label of congenital malformation of the hand we find different pathologies, or combinations thereof, which are characterized by their functional and aesthetic impact on the upper extremity of the newborn: syndactyly, polydactyly or aplasia in the fingers, among them. hand malformations Also, these malformations of the hand have very different levels of severity […]