Salvage surgery in case of dorsal subluxation of the ulna
The patient starts from an ulna plus picture (that is, the ulna is longer than the radius at its distal ends) with ulnar pain, due to impaction of the ulnar head against the lunate bone of the right wrist. Before going to Dr Piñal, she had undergone an incorrectly executed arthroscopic Wafer procedure, in which […]
Impaction syndrome: removal of ulnar pain by arthroscopic resection
The patient, 43, suffers from a combined ulnar impaction syndrome in his right wrist caused by the excess length of the ulna and ulnar styloid, which collide with the carpal area. More specifically, the head of the ulna surpasses the edge of the radius and impacts against the lunate bone and the styloid, bigger than […]
Triangular fibrocartilage rupture and ulnar styloid fracture: dry arthroscopy surgery
The patient, 19, presents instability in the left wrist and pain at its ulnar edge. The symptoms, which limit its functionality, appear after a second injury (he had suffered a previous wrist fracture in childhood) and have their origin in a pseudoarthrosis of the ulnar styloid and the rupture of the insertion of the triangular […]
Dr. Piñal, guest speaker at an international webinar of the Indian Orthopaedic Association
The Spanish surgeon analyzed the secondary instabilities in acute injuries and ulnar fractures
Dr Piñal participates in the international panel of speakers of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Indian Society for Surgery of the Hand
Francisco del Piñal was the only Spanish surgeon in the foreign teaching team of the meeting.
Dr Piñal, guest of honor at the congress of the Taiwan Society for Surgery of the Hand
The meeting will take place this coming May at the Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital