A case of priapism admitted to departement of urology in this hospital, Chung-nam national university.
Blood examination revealed marked increase of leukocytes (115, 000), blood smear showed 43% of immature cells chiefly consisted of myelogenous series including my-eloblasts, promyelocytes, myelocytes and metamyelocytes. We could easily diagnose of chronic myelocytic leukemia referred from internal medicine department.
Conservative treatment for priapism such as sedation, ice water enema, local cold application and irrigation of corpora cavernosa with heparin-saline solution tried but all failed. Eventually cured it by caverno-saphenous shunt operation.
Here we report a new case of priapism in leukemia with related references.
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