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Successful penile replantation following autoamputation: twice!
1Department of Urology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany. bjoern.volkmer@medizin.uni-ulm.de
International Journal of Impotence Research
|June 12, 2002
Abstract:
Report on a psychiatric patient who performed self-emasculation twice in an interval of 10 y. The penis was replanted microsurgically in both cases. At 1-y follow-up examinations he reported on restored erectile function. Under optimized therapy of his psychiatric disease, the patient appreciated the restored body image.