Management of penile amputation

Abstract

When one reviews the literature surrounding penile amputation, most of what is found is individual case reports or reports of small series. Thus what is considered to be state-of-the-art management is gleaned from literature review, and frankly reliant on expert opinion. An exception to this statement is a series of penile amputation from Thailand published in 1983 (Bhanganada et al. 1983) in the American Journal of Surgery. That report described the management of approximately 100 cases of penile amputation, many of which preceded the description of microreplantation techniques and validated much of what literature reviews have proposed. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.