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Del Piñal participates in the lecturer panel of a course on wrist disorders at the Mayo Clinic

Del Piñal participates in the lecturer panel of a course on wrist disorders at the Mayo Clinic

26 May, 2016

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This training is integrated into the program of the Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development

The Spanish surgeon Francisco del Piñal was part of the lecturer panel of the course Disorders of the Wrist 2016, a training action integrated in the program of continuing professional specialization of the Mayo Clinic, considered one of the best hospitals in the United States.

From Thursday to Sunday last week, a selection of the best American and international specialists in the upper limb analyzed the main clinical conditions of the wrist and the radioulnar joint, besides presenting the latest advances in the surgical techniques of arthroplasty and arthroscopy.

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From left to right: Henk Coert, head of the department of plastic and hand surgery of the University Hospital of Utrecht (Netherlands); Gregory Bain, president of the Asia Pacific Wrist Association (Australia); Steven Moran, director of surgery and professor of plastic and hand surgery of the Mayo Clinic (USA); Francisco del Pinal, chairman of the advisory board of the European Wrist Arthroscopy Society (Spain) and Jan-Ragnar Haugsvedt, senior consultant in hand surgery at the Østfold Hospital (Norway).

It was precisely this last field, the arthroscopic treatment of pathologies of the upper limb, which focused most of the interventions of Dr. Del Piñal. Thus, Del Piñal addressed the use of dry arthroscopy in perilunate injuries, arthroscopic repair of complex fractures or the arthroscopic intercarpal fusions in cases of wrist arthritis.

In turn, the Spanish surgeon explained the details of his technique of using vascularized bone in carpal reconstructive surgery.

Mayo Clinic

The Mayo Clinic, where Dr. Del Piñal spent a period as a visiting doctor, is considered the best American hospital in areas such as neurosurgery, gastric surgery or lung diseases. Furthermore, it is in the top 3 of specialties like traumatology and oncology, allowing it to attract more than 1.3 million patients worldwide each year.