Use of a hypogastric flap and split-thickness skin grafting for a degloving injury of the penis and scrotum: A different approach

Penile and scrotal skin avulsions are not common events and are caused usually by accidents with industrial machines or agricultural machines. We report a case of a 27-year-old newly married thin-built patient with avulsion and traumatic degloving of the penile and scrotal skin, with exposure of the...

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Autores principales: Selvan, S. Sengathir, Alagu, Ganesh S., Gunasekaran, R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20368872
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.59296
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author Selvan, S. Sengathir
Alagu, Ganesh S.
Gunasekaran, R.
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description Penile and scrotal skin avulsions are not common events and are caused usually by accidents with industrial machines or agricultural machines. We report a case of a 27-year-old newly married thin-built patient with avulsion and traumatic degloving of the penile and scrotal skin, with exposure of the corpora cavernosa and copus spongiosum of penis and testes as his loose clothes got entangled in a paddy harvesting machine accidently. Reconstruction was performed using a hypogastric flap and split skin graft, achieving a satisfactory aesthetic result and sexual functions.
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spelling pubmed-28453792010-04-05 Use of a hypogastric flap and split-thickness skin grafting for a degloving injury of the penis and scrotum: A different approach Selvan, S. Sengathir Alagu, Ganesh S. Gunasekaran, R. Indian J Plast Surg Case Report Penile and scrotal skin avulsions are not common events and are caused usually by accidents with industrial machines or agricultural machines. We report a case of a 27-year-old newly married thin-built patient with avulsion and traumatic degloving of the penile and scrotal skin, with exposure of the corpora cavernosa and copus spongiosum of penis and testes as his loose clothes got entangled in a paddy harvesting machine accidently. Reconstruction was performed using a hypogastric flap and split skin graft, achieving a satisfactory aesthetic result and sexual functions. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2845379/ /pubmed/20368872 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.59296 Text en © Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Selvan, S. Sengathir
Alagu, Ganesh S.
Gunasekaran, R.
Use of a hypogastric flap and split-thickness skin grafting for a degloving injury of the penis and scrotum: A different approach
title Use of a hypogastric flap and split-thickness skin grafting for a degloving injury of the penis and scrotum: A different approach
title_full Use of a hypogastric flap and split-thickness skin grafting for a degloving injury of the penis and scrotum: A different approach
title_fullStr Use of a hypogastric flap and split-thickness skin grafting for a degloving injury of the penis and scrotum: A different approach
title_full_unstemmed Use of a hypogastric flap and split-thickness skin grafting for a degloving injury of the penis and scrotum: A different approach
title_short Use of a hypogastric flap and split-thickness skin grafting for a degloving injury of the penis and scrotum: A different approach
title_sort use of a hypogastric flap and split-thickness skin grafting for a degloving injury of the penis and scrotum: a different approach
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20368872
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.59296
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