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 discusses thumb microsurgical reconstruction techniques for the Pulvertaft Hand Centre training program
The Spanish surgeon laid out his strategies for approaching complex thumb amputations in a single step. Dr. Piñal took part as a lecturer last Monday in the training program of the Pulvertaft Hand Centre (United Kingdom). During the fifty minutes of his presentation, he detailed the set of techniques of his strategy of thumb reconstruction […]
Media, TVCYL: Dr Piñal addresses in ‘Diagnóstico’ the microsurgical techniques in toe to hand transplants
The Spanish surgeon has performed more than 500 procedures of these characteristics, with a success rate over 99% of the cases. The informative program on medicine and health of Televisión Castilla y León (TVCYL), ‘Diagnóstico’, focused its last edition on amputations and microsurgical replantations. When it came to treating upper limb clinical pictures, the program […]
Dr Piñal training program – Dr. Bérniz, University of Navarra Clinic, Spain
«I would recommend Dr. Piñal’s program as part of the training of any plastic surgeon or trauma surgeon in hand and upper limb surgery».
Dr. Piñal, guest speaker at the International Conference of the Egyptian Society for Surgery of the Hand and Microsurgery
The Spanish surgeon addressed various aspects of wrist surgery and the latest developments in thumb reconstruction during the two days of the meeting.
Toe to hand transplants: characteristics and case studies
Dr Francisco del Piñal is a world reference in the execution of toe to hand transplants. The Spanish surgeon has performed more than 500 microsurgical procedures of these characteristics, with a success rate over 99%, restoring function in their upper extremity to patients with different degrees of mutilations.
Functional recovery and elimination of pain through surgery in patient diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome or Sudeck’s atrophy
Sandra Flores, 31, is diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome or Sudeck’s atrophy after a previous ligamentoplasty intervention in the right trapeziometacarpal joint (thumb ligament reconstruction). After the procedure, she developed a picture of acute pain and functional difficulties.
Dr Piñal, international keynote speaker at the congress of the Australian Hand Surgery Society
The Spanish surgeon will address the latest advances in arthroscopic surgery, treatment of nerve injuries or reconstructive microsurgery among other issues.