[Complication of self-injection with petroleum jelly for penis augmentation]

An increasing number of complications after penis enlargement procedures, sometimes self-performed, are being observed in Germany and in the other countries. This report presents a case of a 43-year-old patient who presented with multiple fistulas, paraffinomas and bacterial superinfection after having injected petroleum jelly into his penis. In order to remove the foreign bodies as well as the infected and necrotic tissue the complete epithelium had to be radically excised. After further local and surgical wound treatment penis reconstruction with a full thickness skin graft was performed which later led to a functional and aesthetical complete restoration to the original condition.