Partial Amputation of the Penis with Total Rupture of the Urethra: About a Case in the Urology Department of the Bonamoussadi District Medical Center

Abstract

Penis amputations are rare, they are most often observed in a criminal context or in the context of self-mutilation. We present the case of a partial amputation of the shaft in the context of a domestic accident. This is a 53-year-old patient received in the emergency department for partial amputation of the penis occurred, whose mechanism of occurrence would be the fall of a sheet metal from the roof of his house, with reception on the proximal end of the shaft leading to a partial rupture of it—here, with total urethral section. He has no medi cal-surgical history. The physical examination finds a good general condition, a partial tearing of the ventral face of the penis associated with a total rupture of the urethra followed by a hemorrhage, the rest of the examination was without particularity. The emergency assessment carried out was without particularity. The treatment consisted initially of catheterizing the urethra by a urinary tube ch 20, then a urethral replacement, followed by a Peno plastie. The surgical sui tes were enamelled with parietal suppuration plus necrosis at J 14 po st-operative. A more bidaily dressing debridement followed with a favorable evolution at 2 months. Subsequently, a penile graft was performed more urethrolastic, with removal of the flap on the inner side of the thigh, the surgical suites were favorable o n the sexual plane gradual resumption of night erections.