An unusual course after injection of industrial silicone for penile augmentation

  • Yu Seob Shin
  • , Jae Hyung You
  • , Hwang Choi
  • , Li Tao Zhang
  • , Chen Zhao
  • , In Sung Choi
  • , Jong Kwan Park*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A 48-year-old male patient had an injection of industrial silicone under the penile skin for augmentation by non-medical practitioners a week before. There was complete necrosis of the dorsal part of the penile skin and soft tissue. In a penile magnetic resonance image, big masses of silicone under the penile skin were found and a part of the silicone was partially exposed. Debridement of the necrotic tissue was done. As the right side of the tunica albuginea was thin-walled, a silicone-induced infection developed. Because of this, the wet dressing was done daily without closing the wound for the next 23 days. Finally, both scrotal skins were drawn and sutured to the dorsal glandular skin after the total penile skin was completely removed and sutured with T-style anastomosis. The ventral flap was anastomosed to the ventral glandular skin with the end-to-end technique with inverted V incision at 1 cm proximal from the sutured margin. Flaps survived completely without skin necrosis or dehiscence.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)E145-E147
JournalCanadian Urological Association Journal
Volume9
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015.03.1

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

  • Medicine

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