Fracture du corps caverneux

ABSTRACT

Review the mechanisms, clinical aspects and therapeutic modalities of the penile fracture. Material and methods: This retrospective study was designed to investigate the aetiological, functional symptoms and results of clinical examination of 16 penile fracture cases admitted to emergency departement. All of them were treated by an urgent elective suturing of albuginea. The average age was 30 years. The most common mechanism of penile fracture was a forced manipulation of the penis during erection. All of them had a penile hematoma and penile incurvation to the opposite side of fracture. Ten pateints were reviewed with a mean follow up of 4 months. All of them resumed their normal sexual activity and no one of them developed penile incurvation or a fibrotic plate. Diagnosis of penile fracture is essentially clinical. Treatment must be done by an urgent surgical interference