Bilateral Corpus Cavernosum and Complete Urethral Rupture: A Double Trouble

Penile fracture is a rare urologic emergency. The main finding is a partial disruption of one or both cavernosal bodies due to blunt trauma of the penis during an erection. Complete or partial injury of the urethra may accompany the penile fracture but complete urethral rupture is rarely encountered...

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Autores principales: Sökmen, Doğukan, Çömez, Yusuf İ
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Urology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8260194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34262819
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15481
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description Penile fracture is a rare urologic emergency. The main finding is a partial disruption of one or both cavernosal bodies due to blunt trauma of the penis during an erection. Complete or partial injury of the urethra may accompany the penile fracture but complete urethral rupture is rarely encountered. In this study, we present the management of a penile fracture case with disruption of both corpus cavernosum with total urethral rupture.
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spelling pubmed-82601942021-07-13 Bilateral Corpus Cavernosum and Complete Urethral Rupture: A Double Trouble Sökmen, Doğukan Çömez, Yusuf İ Cureus Urology Penile fracture is a rare urologic emergency. The main finding is a partial disruption of one or both cavernosal bodies due to blunt trauma of the penis during an erection. Complete or partial injury of the urethra may accompany the penile fracture but complete urethral rupture is rarely encountered. In this study, we present the management of a penile fracture case with disruption of both corpus cavernosum with total urethral rupture. Cureus 2021-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8260194/ /pubmed/34262819 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15481 Text en Copyright © 2021, Sökmen et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/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 author and source are credited.
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Bilateral Corpus Cavernosum and Complete Urethral Rupture: A Double Trouble
title Bilateral Corpus Cavernosum and Complete Urethral Rupture: A Double Trouble
title_full Bilateral Corpus Cavernosum and Complete Urethral Rupture: A Double Trouble
title_fullStr Bilateral Corpus Cavernosum and Complete Urethral Rupture: A Double Trouble
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Corpus Cavernosum and Complete Urethral Rupture: A Double Trouble
title_short Bilateral Corpus Cavernosum and Complete Urethral Rupture: A Double Trouble
title_sort bilateral corpus cavernosum and complete urethral rupture: a double trouble
topic Urology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8260194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34262819
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15481
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