Treatment of Priapism: experience in 13 cases

Priapism is considered a surgica1 emergency, it may be either idiopathic or secondary to a known cause. Treatment may be specific, conservative or surgical. Surgical treatment is the main line of therapy mainly in the form of aspiration and irrigation of the corpora cavernosa and venous shunts. Being the simplest technique and with the least possibility of complications the caverno-glanular shunt is the procedure of choice