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Penile cavernosal abscess after urethral injury
Koichiro Yamamoto1, Hiroyuki Honda1, Kou Hasegawa1
1Department of General Medicine Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Okayama Japan.
Abstract:
We present a patient catheterized for prostatic lesions who developed sepsis of urinary origin with a penile cavernosal abscess due to urethral injury caused by catheter ballooning. Urethral injury might lead to a life-threatening penile abscess.
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