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.
‘Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery’ awards an article by Dr Piñal as the best of 2019 in plastic and reconstructive surgery of the hand
The PRS Best Papers Awards 2020 distinguish the best articles published in the official journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons in different categories
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
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.
Extreme Thumb Losses: Reconstructive Strategies
Francisco del Piñal, M.D., Dr. Med. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 144(3):665-677, September 2019 – Copyright © 2019 American Society of Plastic Surgeons. ABSTRACT (full text pdf. below) Extreme Thumb Losses: Reconstructive Strategies Background Historically, complex amputations of the thumb have been managed in two stages and often require additional soft-tissue and tendon transfer for successful outcomes. This […]
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 […]
Dr. Piñal participates as guest speaker at the Big Hand Event 2019 in Utrecht
The Spanish surgeon took part in the sessions devoted to reflex sympathetic dystrophy and toe to hand transplantation Dr. Piñal was part of the list of foreign speakers of the Big Hand Event 2019 (BHE 2019), an annual meeting that addresses hand pathologies in a multidisciplinary way and which was hosted at the Jaarbeurs Convention Center, in the Dutch […]
Toes to hand transplant in a case of accidental amputation with a mechanical saw
The patient, a 42-year-old male, suffers the amputation of three fingers of the left hand at different levels, in an accident with a mechanical saw that severely damages the index and middle fingers and, to a lesser extent, the ring finger. Dr. Piñal addresses the picture described by transplanting the two second toes to the […]
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%.