To confirm the usefulness of our new erectile function test, Psychogenic Erection Monitoring using Sexual Stimulation Score, we monitored results in 150 patients with suspected impotence. As compared with conventional methods, this new test reduced the number of false negative and positive recordings and proved a useful method for diagnosis of impotence.

This study concerns the results of penile biopsies in 50 patients aged 27 to 80, with secondary impotence removed with a biopty gun or during penile surgery. The biopty gun specimens were equally representative as the open biopsy ones. The cause and the degree of erectile dysfunction were determined by clinical and laboratorial investigation. The histological study of the cavernous bodies in th...