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 […]
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.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery publishes Dr. Piñal’s work in reconstructive surgery for extreme thumb losses
The magazine of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons is the international benchmark in advances in plastic and reconstructive surgery.
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 […]
Primary Thumb Reconstruction in a Mutilated Hand
Francisco del Piñal, MD, Dr Med, Davide Pennazzato, MD, Esteban Urrutia, MD Hand Clinics Vol. 32, Issue 4, November, Pages 519-531 – © 2016 by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ABSTRACT (full text pdf. below) Introduction Without doubt, the most effective way of restoring the amputated thumb function is by replanting it. Any major effort is justifiable to do […]