Dr Piñal participates in a webinar on the medical-social consequences of pyrotechnic accidents
The meeting, promoted by the Chilean organization COANIQUEM, is open to the participation of sociosanitary professionals from Latin America
Media: microsurgery that rescues hands from quadriplegia
Various national media outlets echo the intervention of Dr Piñal to recover part of the functionality of the hands of a young quadriplegic.
Dr Piñal gives a keynote lecture at the congress of the Spanish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
Under the title ‘More than microsurgery in the hand’ (‘Más que microcirugía en la mano’), Piñal underscored the surgical approach to the upper limb “as a whole”, on the basis of technical presentations and case studies from his long medical career. The conference of the Spanish surgeon and microsurgeon, given last Monday, was one of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
The IFSSH magazine interviews Dr Piñal about his article on reconstructive surgery for extreme thumb losses for ‘Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery’
The work of the Spanish surgeon was distinguished last year with the PRS Best Paper Award for the best article in the hand category.
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 sets the guidelines for the clinical management of severe crush injuries to the forearm and hand, not only in the acute phase but also in the sequels
In his latest article for Clinics in Plastic Surgery, the Spanish surgeon analyzes the impact of microsurgery in improving the prognosis of the most serious cases (catastrophic hand syndrome), and how to improve function in cases that are already in sequels phase. They can also benefit from reasoned surgery.