Dr. Piñal, visiting professor at an online seminar on microsurgery of San Francisco’s Buncke Clinic
Residents and faculty of the medical schools of Stanford and California-San Francisco universities will take part in the meeting
Dr Piñal addresses Sudeck’s atrophy or reflex sympathetic dystrophy at the congress of the Asian Pacific Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand
The twelfth edition of this meeting brought together several thousand physicians in the Australian city of Melbourne. Melbourne hosted last week the 12th edition of the Asian Pacific Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (APFSSH) triennial congress. The Spanish surgeon Francisco del Piñal was part of the international cast of guest speakers and […]
Dr. Piñal, the first Spanish surgeon invited to give the keynote conference of the congress of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery
This annual meeting will take place next January in the US state of Hawaii
The British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) honors Dr Piñal for his medical career
The award acknowledges the contributions made by the Cantabrian surgeon in the fields of hand surgery and microsurgery.
Microsurgical solution to accidental feet injuries with a mower
Marcelino and Lucila, patients of two and four years old. They suffer severe foot injuries after mower accidents. Dr Piñal addresses the damage in both cases with the autologous transfer of a vascularized flap of muscle gracilis, taken from the inner thigh.
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 […]
Finger fractures: characteristics and surgery applied to sequelae correction
In this new blog entry Dr. Piñal addresses finger fractures and their potential sequelae, such as lack of mobility, angulated fingers or stiffness. Likewise, he analyzes his technique of cannulated screws insertion in the medullary canal of the bones, which allows to fix the mentioned fractures and their early mobilization. The insertion of cannulated screws […]
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, […]
Surgical elimination of neuropathic pain in the sciatic and pudendal nerves
The patient has suffered for several years a strong neuropathic pain in the hip and gluteal area due to a neurostenalgia of the sciatic and pudendal nerves. This nervous condition causes inability to sit or adopt any posture that involves hip flexion without pain, but can be eliminated by surgery.