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755Vol. 10    |    No. 1    |    Winter 2013    |U R O LO G Y   J O U R N A L

Department of Urology, Chris-
tian Medical College, Vellore, 
Tamil Nadu, India

*E-mail: thatsagar@gmail.com

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grene of the penis secondary to a rubber-band 
constriction. He started using a rubber-band for 

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marcation line at the penoscrotal junction (Fig-

Color Doppler ultrasonography revealed no 

underneath a necrosed skin, and only a debride-
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ness skin grafting harvested from anterolateral 

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priapism, venous thrombosis, and anticoagu-

end-stage renal disease. Strangulation caused by hair, nuts, rings, threads, bands, and bottle necks has been reported mainly 
for autoerotism or in the mentally challenged.(2) Color Doppler ultrasonography can provide invaluable information regarding 
thrombosis or rupture of cavernosal and dorsal penile vessels.(3)

of non-viability.
 

Sagar Sabharwal,
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 John Samuel Banerji, Nitin Sudhakar Kekre

Penile Skin Necrosis Mimicking Penile Gangrene
An Unusual Case

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2. Malik MH, el Amir Z, Ali M, Ahmed A, Farooqi MA. Penile strangulation: A study of fifteen cases. 
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3. Bargallo X, Bunesch L, de Juan C, Vilana R, Bru C. Constrictive penile band injury: Color Doppler 
sonographic assessment. J Ultrasound Med. 2002;21:215-7.

PICTORIAL  UROLOGY

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