Severe Crush Injury to the Forearm and Hand. The Role of Microsurgery
Francisco del Piñal, MD, PhDa, Esteban Urrutia, MD, Maciej Klich, MD Clinics in Plastic Surgery Vol. 40, Issue 4, April, Pages 233-255 – © 2016 by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ABSTRACT (full text pdf. below) Severe Crush Injury to the Forearm and Hand. The Role of Microsurgery Summary Crush injuries rate among the most feared injuries for […]
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
Tumor resection and functional restoration in hand and wrist
The patient, a young male, has a recurrent tumor in the area of the wrist likely to eventually become malignant after appearing for a third time. After the last diagnosis, an amputation is recommended due to disabling pains and the risk of metastasis. The problem The analysed picture presents characteristics that make malignancy and the appearance of a metastatic […]
Media: Dr. Piñal reconstructs the right hand of a patient who had lost his five fingers in an explosion
Marius Constantin, 28 years old (Zalla, Vizcaya, Spain), lost the five fingers of his right hand last New Year’s Eve due to the explosion of a high-powered firecracker, which left the limb with an effective amputation at the wrist level.
Dr. Piñal speaks at the 52nd edition of the Congress of the French Society for Hand Surgery
The Spanish surgeon was among the four foreign physicians invited by FSHS president, Dr. Christophe Mathoulinn
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 […]
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 […]
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