OBJECTIVE Glans injury during circumcision is an uncommon yet potentially devastating complication. Its mechanism remains poorly understood. Herein we critically evaluate a case series and, based on common characteristics, hypothesize the mechanism of injury as well as means to prevent it. METHODS Retrospective review of circumcision-related glans amputation cases referred for evaluation and ...

CONTEXT The majority of scorpion stings are oligosymptomatic, occurring mainly on the hands and feet. Fatality is rare. CASE REPORT A 33-year old man suffered a severe sting on his penis from a scorpion of the species Tytius trivittatus. Alcohol and salt were used without success in an effort to relieve pain. Medical assistance was sought 4 hours after the event, at which time diffuse erythem...

We present a case of a patient with malignant melanoma of the glans penis and urethra, which was found in a 53-year-old man with nonhealing ulcerative penile lesion and bilateral, clinically palpable inguinal lymphadenopathies at diagnosis. A diagnostic biopsy showed the characteristics of a melanoma. We treated the patient with total penectomy and bilateral inguinal lymph node dissection. Afte...

We examined the morphology of male genitalia six Muridae and five Cricetidae in Muroidea focusing on medial lateral bacular mounds, as well their ossification patterns to discuss diversity movement mechanism trident structure. All species possessed a mound two which collectively formed In species, was ossified or consisted cartilage, while mounds were composed soft tissue. By contrast, both spe...

seen of hypospadias being connected with so great a deficiency of the corpus spongiosum as described below. This instance was observed in the person of a Jat of this district aged 30 years. The urethra opened in front of the scrotum, and the penal part of the canal was represented by a very shallow groove. The groove ran from the urethral opening to the tip of the penis, and its bottom was occu...

extrapulmonary tuberculosis is a complication of pulmonary tuberculosis that is disseminated through hematogenous or lymphatic system and may involve any organs. we present a case of primary tuberculosis of the penis that is a very rare presentation of tuberculosis. patient the patient was a 43-year-old man who had kidney transplantation. he admitted with painful ulceration on the glans of peni...

OBJECTIVE Circumcision, performed for religious or medical reasons is the procedure of surgical excision of the skin covering the glans penis, preputium in a certain shape and dimension so as to expose the tip of the glans penis. Short- and long- term complication rates of up to 50% have been reported, varying due to the recording system of different countries in which the procedure has been ac...

Dear Editor, Metastasis to the penis is rare, with no more than 500 cases reported to date. Primary tumours of sarcomatous origin are extremely rare, and no case of osteosarcoma has been described in the literature. Here, we present a case of penile metastasis from osteosarcoma of the ischial tuberosity and discuss its possible metastatic mechanisms and clinical implications. A 42-year-old man,...

background: the persian squirrel (sciurus anomalus) is a member of the family sciuridae in the middle east and very little information is available about the anatomy of the different organs of this animal. objectives: in this study, histological and macro anatomical structures of penis were examined on 6 adult male persian squirrels. methods: each animal was sacrificed after anesthesia with ket...

this is a report of a penile fibrosarcoma in a two-year-old crossbred holstein bull. the ulcerated tumormass with dimensions of 7 × 9 × 6.5 cm, was enveloped the glans and body of the penis. it had a white-graycolor at cross section appearance. there was no metastatic evidence of regional lymph node enlargement.histopathologically, elongated spindle-shaped cells arranged densely in the interwov...