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| Year : 2008 | Volume
: 13
| Issue : 1 | Page : 33-35 |
Persistently erected penis in a child for 6 months: A management dilemma
Sukanta Das, Dipak Ghosh, Akhilesh Agarwal, Suranjan Haldar
Department of Pediatric Surgery, General Surgery Medical College, Kolkata, India
Correspondence Address:
Akhilesh Agarwal
Room No. 6 Doctors Chummury, 41 Eden Hospital Road, Kolkatta - 700 073, West Bengal
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-9261.42573
Priapism is the presence of a persistent, usually painful, erection of the penis unrelated to sexual stimulation or desire. It is a true emergency requiring urgent intervention. Priapism is frequently idiopathic in etiology, but it is associated with a number of important medical conditions and pharmacologic agents. Cases have been reported in world literature on children having priapism, the etiology of these cases are mostly hematological. Our case is a child having persistently erected penis for more than 6 months. Despite a thorough search, no report of similar case could be found in world literature.
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