Dr. Francisco Piñal, Keynote speaker at the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery
In the main speech, the Cantabrian surgeon presented his studies on Sudeck’s disease (also called reflex sympathetic dystrophy, or complex regional pain)
Dr Piñal participates in Berlin at the Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand
The city of Berlin picked up the baton from Buenos Aires in hosting the Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH) last week. Under the slogan ‘Building bridges – together hand in hand’, this 14th edition of the most important meeting on upper limb surgery on a global scale […]
Dr. Piñal, speaker at the congress of the World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery held in Bologna
The Palazzo della Cultura e dei Congressi of the Italian city of Bologna hosted last week the tenth congress of the World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (WSRM), under the motto ‘Ad augusta per angusta’ (‘Great achievements through narrow paths’). This meeting, the most important in the world in its discipline, was attended as a speaker […]
Vascularized neurocutaneous flap transplant in case of reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Patient, 8 years old, suffers a partial amputation of the left thumb in accident. She attends the clinic of Piñal y Asociados 12 weeks after the trauma with a diagnosis of reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy. The problem Before being treated by the Spanish surgeon and his surgical unit, an attempt is made for […]
Microsurgical procedure in case of Volkmann’s syndrome
A 15-year-old patient with a proximal fracture on the right forearm. She goes to the clinic of Dr. Piñal four months after a previous intervention, with severe functional limitations and a picture of pain and paralysis due to a Volkmann’s syndrome. This is a set of impacts linked to ischemic necrosis of muscles and nerves, […]
Dr. Piñal participates in the US in the teaching panel of the triennial course on advances in wrist surgery of the Mayo Clinic
Under the title ‘Controversies in wrist surgery 2019’, the meeting counts on the collaboration of the European Wrist Arthroscopy Society (EWAS).
Extensive interview with Dr. Piñal in the newspapers of Grupo Vocento on the occasion of his toe to hand transplant number 500
The paper media of Grupo Vocento (El Correo, Diario Montañés, Norte de Castilla, Ideal de Granada, La Verdad de Murcia, etc.) devoted an extensive interview to the Spanish surgeon Francisco Piñal last Wednesday. The main reason: his toe to hand transplant number 500, with a success rate of 99%.
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.