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Twenty-eight year-old man with penile fracture. Clinical photograph showed a markedly swollen, purple and painful penis resembling an eggplant.
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On physical examination, the patient had a grossly deformed penis with swelling and deviation to the right (Figure-1).
Twenty-eight - old man with penile fracture. Axial CT image obviously demonstrated unilateral 0.8cm x 1.4cm area of tear of the left lateral tunia albuginea with adjacent hematoma. Arrows indicate the free edges of tunica defect and asterisks show the associated hematoma.
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The imaging findings were confirmed at surgery (Figure-2).
The rent in tunica albuginia and corpora cavernosum. The haematoma within the tunica albuginea was evacuated and the corporal tear was identified.
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He was treated by surgical exploration, evacuation of the haematoma and repair of the ruptured tunica albuginea using absorbable sutures (Figure-3).