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Media, A3 TV: Dr. Piñal transplants two toes to the hand of a boy who suffered the explosion of a fireworks rocket

Borja, a 13-year-old from Cantabria, lost three fingers of his right hand due to the explosion of a fireworks rocket. Dr Piñal and his team have managed to restore its functionality by transferring two toes of the patient’s feet. 

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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, international guest speaker at the congresses of the American and Indian societies for hand surgery

The Spanish surgeon will discuss the latest advances in his areas of specialization in the cities of Boston (USA) and Coimbatore (India).

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Thumb reconstruction by microsurgery after accidental amputation

The patient, male, suffers the amputation of his right hand’s thumb and a serious damage to the surrounding tissue and musculoskeletal structure. The impact,

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Congenital hand differences: surgical answers to functional and aesthetic problems in children (III)

In this third entry of his series on the problems of differentiation and formation in the hand of the newborn (congenital malformations), Dr Piñal approaches pathologies such as syndactyly,

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Neurocutaneous Toe Free Flap with Pulp

Francisco del Piñal, M.D., Dr. Med.

ASSH Surgical Anatomy: Flap Reconstruction chapter 43 313-320, 2018. Edited by Kevin C. Chung,

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Five worrying signs after treatment or operation on a wrist fracture

In several of our previous conversations, Dr Piñal has insisted that a normal wrist is the one we’re not even aware it’s there, so therefore new or persistent sensations can point to the false resolution of a previous pathology or trauma.

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Testimonial: “I had neither mobility nor strength in the hands, now I put my tube, I eat, I shower and dress on my own and I can drive”

David, a young Cantabrian, 37 years old, with quadriplegia – C5 level injuries in the spinal cord – after a hit in the head trying to dive into: “I had neither mobility nor strength in my hands;