Citation

Hori S, Mitsui Y, Iwai H, Tai T, Kobayashi H, Nakajima K, Nagao K. Case Rep. Urol. 2018; 2018: 8598195.

Affiliation

Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo 143-8540, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Hindawi Publishing)

DOI

10.1155/2018/8598195

PMID

29862115

PMCID

PMC5976994

Abstract

We treated a 65-year-old Japanese man with a giant penile lymphedema due to chronic penile strangulation with a rubber band. He was referred to our hospital with progressive penile swelling that had developed over a period of 2 years from chronic use of a rubber band placed around the penile base for prevention of urinary incontinence. Under a diagnosis of giant penile lymphedema, we performed resection of abnormal penile skin weighing 4.8 kg, followed by a penile plasty procedure. To the best of our knowledge, this is only the seventh report of such a case worldwide, with the present giant penile lymphedema the most reported.

Language: en