La Razón: «Microcirugía que recompone la mano catastrófica»
El suplemento sanitario del diario La Razón, ‘A tu salud’, abordó en su edición 634 las diversas técnicas desarrolladas por el Dr. Piñal para el abordaje de los casos de mano catastrófica
Catastrophic hand (IV). Success stories in amputations, crushings, etc.
With success rates above 95% in his interventions, Dr. Piñal is considered one of the world’s upper limb best surgeons. A trajectory built, among other medical fields, on the definition of a landmark theoretical-practical framework in the clinical approach of cases of catastrophic hand, drawn from the development and application of techniques in microsurgery that […]
Primary Thumb Reconstruction in a Mutilated Hand
Francisco del Piñal, MD, Dr Med, Davide Pennazzato, MD, Esteban Urrutia, MD Hand Clinics Vol. 32, Issue 4, November, Pages 519-531 – © 2016 by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ABSTRACT (full text pdf. below) Introduction Without doubt, the most effective way of restoring the amputated thumb function is by replanting it. Any major effort is justifiable to do […]
Intense agenda for Dr. Piñal during the 13th IFSSH Congress in Buenos Aires
This meeting, considered the most important international event on hand surgery, gathered more than 1000 physicians from all over the world at the Argentine capital
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 […]
Microsurgical replantation of right forearm after accidental amputation at work
The patient, male, 28, suffers the traumatic amputation of part of his right arm in an accident at work. An industrial plastic cutting machine severs his upper limb above the forearm. He is transferred in helicopter from the site of the accident (Vizcaya) to Clínica Mompía, what allows going into the operating room less than […]
Olympic medal for Israeli judoka Or Sasson, operated of a serious right wrist injury by Dr. Del Piñal
The twice European runner-up and continental open winner defeated the Cuban Alex Garcia in Rio in the bronze medal fight
Wrist Arthroscopy: applications in complex surgery
The advent of arthroscopic surgery to wrist pathologies in the early 90s was a revolution on existing open intervention techniques.
Santander hosts the 16th edition of the Congress of the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand
This meeting, chaired by Dr. Francisco del Piñal, brings together 1,600 specialists upper limb from around the world
Dr. Del Piñal, guest speaker at the XXIVth Portuguese Congress of Hand Surgery
This medical meeting will take place in Peniche on 23rd and 24th September