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.
Five worrying signs after treatment or operation on a wrist fracture
In several of our previous conversations, Dr Piñal has insisted that a normal wrist is the one we’re not even aware it’s there, so therefore new or persistent sensations can point to the false resolution of a previous pathology or trauma. This is the case of wrist fractures, whose preceding treatment or subsequent surgery can […]
Dr Piñal, guest of honor at the congress of the Taiwan Society for Surgery of the Hand
The meeting will take place this coming May at the Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Dr. Piñal, honorary professor of The Philadelphia Hand Center (US)
The Spanish surgeon received this distinction during the XIXth edition of the annual symposium on hand surgery by this American medical institution
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.
87th annual meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association: Del Piñal, guest professor in one of the largest medical events in Asia
The city of Kobe will host the 87th annual meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association , in which will participate, according to the organizers, more than 10,000 worldwide physicians under the theme ‘ Dreams Come True: the soul and spirit of Orthopaedics.
Dr. Del Piñal: “If no hope is given to someone with a radius fracture, we are before lack of knowledge or just malpractice”
Las fracturas de radio o fracturas de Colles se producen de forma muy común, y –por desgracia- en demasiadas ocasiones son abordadas incorrectamente. De forma tradicional se han considerado lesiones de muñeca de buen pronóstico, lo que genera excesos de confianza que desembocan en diagnosis y tratamientos inadecuados.
Del Piñal gives the master lecture at the conference ‘Distal radius fractures and associated injuries’, organized by the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid
The Spanish surgeon addressed the use of arthroscopy in distal radius fractures and related lesions The San Carlos Clinical Hospital (Madrid) hosted last February 21st the conference ‘Distal radius fractures and associated injuries’, promoted by its Hand Surgery Unit, under the direction of Dr. M ª Dolores Gimeno. Within the program of this training course […]
Wrist fracture: “There is hope for all patients, even those with previous failed surgery”
Google translation: Wrist fractures are part of our own vital activity. For children and youth, these are high-energy fractures, ie, the trauma caused by traffic accidents, sports injuries, falls from heights, etc.. On the contrary, when the patient grows old, the wrist low-energy fracture mechanisms come into play, such as small ‘slips’ – and bone […]
Del Piñal, international guest speaker at a course on hand, wrist and elbow surgery in Chile
The Spanish surgeon is the only foreign expert invited, along with Dr. Jeffrey Yao, professor at the Stanford University Dr. Francisco del Piñal starts today his participation in the international postgraduate course ‘Update in surgery of the hand, wrist and elbow‘. The meeting is organized by the Chilean Los Condes Clinic, sponsored by the Faculty […]