Causes and Treatment of Penile Defects

Penis, usually considered as the “lifeblood” of men, is an important urinary and reproductive organ of men, which should be taken good care of. If not well protected, resulting in penile defects, for a man is a devastating blow, serious cases will lose standing urination posture, and will affect the normal sexual function or even loss of fertility, especially affecting the patient’s social life and family happiness. Causes of penile defect penile defect is often caused by burns, explosive injuries, cuts, animal bites and other partial or total defect, but also due to penile cancer, hemangioma and other malignant or benign tumors surgical resection caused by congenital penile defect is relatively rare. Penile defect treatment due to trauma caused by penile defect, the most ideal situation is to retrieve the missing organ in time for reimplantation, that is, in the early stage of penile severance emergency truncated penile reimplantation. Life is often not so ideal, if the conditions do not allow replantation, is it possible to “build another one”? Penile defects can be reconstructed through flap grafting. Ideal penile reconstruction surgery needs to achieve anatomical, functional and aesthetic satisfaction, experienced and professional plastic surgeons, according to your specific situation, will choose the appropriate surgical method. Depending on the choice of flap, there are various surgical methods, such as forearm flap free grafting, island flap grafting with tibia, etc. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages. As you can see, penile reconstruction can rebuild the defective penis, and you can get effective improvement after the operation, but the prerequisite is that you need to choose to go to a regular professional plastic surgery treatment.