PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTION OF PENILE SKIN: IMPLANTATION OF THE PENIS INTO THE SCROTUM

30 September 1950

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 144 (5) , 384
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1950.62920050003008a

Abstract

Complete loss of the skin of the penis is a terrifying and troublesome accident to the patient and to the surgeon who may care for him. The chief causes are traumatic avulsion¹and local tissue necrosis²either secondary to urinary extravasation or to slough following local anesthesia. Most authors, in describing treatment of these cases, have advocated splitthickness skin grafts to cover the defect. A few³have used the principle described here of embedding the denuded penis in the scrotum and later lifting it from its bed surrounded with scrotal skin. This same principle has been employed by Banham,^1dwho implanted the penis in the thigh. A careful review of the literature was presented by Owens in 1942^1b; the most recent report is that of Ferris in 1949.⁴A recent experience in which a denuded penis was successfully and easily treated by scrotal implantation

Keywords

PENIS

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