Surgical treatment of fractured penis

ABSTRACT

To evaluate the outcome of surgical repair of fractured penis. Case Series. This study was conducted in surgical department of Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar from March 1999 to October 2003. A total of 23 cases were studied during this period. Patients with fractured penis were admitted and early surgical intervention was done in all cases under general anesthesia repairing the corpus cavernosusm. Patients were followed for a minimum period of 6 months. The outcome of the procedure in terms of early and late complications like sub optimal painful erection, late penile deformity, difficulty in coitus and pulsatile diverticulum were looked for. The average hospital stay of patients after surgery was 24-48 hours. Three[13%] patients had wound infection and collectively 5 [21.7%] patients out of 23 developed late complications. i.e. 2 patients had penile deformity, one each developed difficulty in coitus, pulastile diverticulum and painful erection. Early surgical intervention has good results with less complication rate in cases of fractured penis