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KMID : 0356420100280010022
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Journal of Korean Andrology
2010 Volume.28 No. 1 p.22 ~ p.27
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What is the best Treatment of Penile Fractures? Conservative or Surgical?: Experience in 34 cases
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Yoon Sang-Jin
Park Ho-Ki
Jung Han
Joo Kwan-Joong
Kim Khae-Hawn
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Abstract
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Purpose: Penile fracture is described as a traumatic rupture of the tunica albuginea because of blunt injury of an erect penis. In this study, we aimed to compare conservative and surgical treatment modalities.
Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 34 patients who visited our hospital with penile fracture and two treatment modalities were compared: conservative (Group I) and surgical (Group II). The five men who refused surgical treatment were treated conservatively, and the other 29 patients underwent surgical treatment.
Results: The most common cause of fracture was sexual intercourse (21/34, 61.8%). The most common sites of fracture were the right (67.6%), ventral (67.6%), and proximal (47.1%) parts of the penis. In Group II, only complication was painful erection (2/29, 6.9%), whereas in group I, 80% (4/5) suffered complications such as wound infection, painful erection, penile nodules with curvature, and erectile dysfunction. All patients treated with surgery successfully recovered without erectile dysfunction.
Conclusions: Because surgical management gives excellent results, shorter hospitalization, less morbidity, surgical treatment is more effective approach than conservative treatment.
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KEYWORD
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Penis, Fracture, Male urologic surgical procedure
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