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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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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;

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

Second entry of Dr Piñal’s blog in his series dedicated to the formation problems of the upper limb in newborns: ‘Congenital hand differences: surgical answers to functional and aesthetic problems in children’ (II).

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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

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Spanish Public Television (TVE): Dr Piñal restores by microsurgery the hands of a patient which were trapped by electric blinds

Patient, young woman, domestic accident when her hands got trapped by electric blinds. After more than twelve hours in the operating room, Dr Piñal and his surgical unit managed to restore functionality of the patient’s upper limbs through a combination of reconstructive microsurgery techniques (following video with english subtitles).

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Media: Dr Piñal reconstructs the hand of a merchant sailor through a pioneering microsurgery intervention in Spain

Alejandro Mayo, a merchant sailor, lost his thumb and a third of his left hand in a work accident on board of a tuna vessel in Atlantic waters.