[Surgical correction of penile torsion]

To treat the physiological dysfunction and psychic disturbances of the patients with penile torsion, a variety of surgery were used to eliminate its abnormality. A modificed of Nesbit procedure was used to correct the major malformation, several parallel ellipsoid patches which axis forms an angle of 45-degree with that of the penis were removed from the tunica albuginea on the convex side of the corpora cavernosa. Besides, stitches were necessary to suture the tunica albuginea to the opposite pubis. It was suitable plicate the tunica albuginea on the convex side of the corpora cavernosa for mild case. The penises of the patients had a normal appearance at both flexible and errect conditions during a 3-month follow-up. Penile torsion could be corrected satisfactorily by shortening the convex side of the corpora cavernosa with excision of ellipsoids or plication of the tunica albuginea, which angulates 45-degree with the penile axis.