Tariq Ahmed Mala

Penile fracture; three years’ experience from a tertiary care centre

The first documented report of this condition was credited to Albulkasem, the Arab Physician, in Cordoba more than 1000 years ago. Penile fracture is defined as a traumatic rupture of the tunica albuginea of one or both corpora cavernosa of an erect penis. There may be an associated injury to the corpus spongiosum or urethra. The condition is under-reported, and certainly not as rare as has been claimed. Although the penis has no bones, but the situation occurring in an erect penis mimics fracture sequences that occur in bones. In penile fracture, the cause of rupture is buckling of the tunica albuginea during erection, tunica stretches and changes its thickness from 2mm to 0.25mm, losses elasticity, and due to that penile fracture can occur by implication of blunt force or bending. Fracture of the penis usually results from direct trauma during sexual intercourse, masturbation, bending ABSTRACT