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 […]
What’s behind ulnar pain?: triangular fibrocartilage and other pathologies
The wrist is one of the most anatomically complex parts of the human skeleton. Its location acts as a link between the forearm and the hand, with the confluence of the epiphyses or distal ends of the radius and ulna and the eight bones that make up the carpus. In this area, the ulna acts […]
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 Piñal publishes the latest developments in wrist arthroscopy in the Journal of Hand Surgery, together with the orthopedic surgery departments of the Mayo Clinic and the Chinese University of Hong Kong
In his new collaborative work for the American edition of the prestigious journal, the role of dry arthroscopy in the approach to pathologies of the radial face of the wrist is addressed
Surgery in multifragmented distal radius fracture
The patient, a 42 firefighter, suffers a right distal radius volar shearing fracture (that is, a break that occurs in a bone when subjected to two forces in parallel and opposite direction) in a motorcycle accident. Trauma affects both the metaphysis, which supports the articular surface, and the joint itself. distal radius fracture
Dry Wrist Arthroscopy for Radial-Sided Wrist Disorders
Sanjeev Kakar, MD, Marion Burnier, MD, Andrea Atzei, MD, P.C. Ho, MD, Guillaume Herzberg, MD, Francisco del Piñal, MD Journal of Hand Surgery American Edition, Vol. 47, Issue 4, April 2020, Pages 341-353 – © 2020 by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand – All rights reserved. ABSTRACT (full text pdf. below) Dry Wrist Arthroscopy for Radial-Sided […]
Dry Wrist Arthroscopy for Radial-Sided Wrist Disorders
Sanjeev Kakar, MD, Marion Burnier, MD, Andrea Atzei, MD, P.C. Ho, MD, Guillaume Herzberg, MD, Francisco del Piñal, MD Journal of Hand Surgery American Edition, Vol. 47, Issue 4, April 2020, Pages 341-353 – © 2020 by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand – All rights reserved. ABSTRACT (full text pdf. below) Dry Wrist Arthroscopy for Radial-Sided […]
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 […]