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Published-Ahead-of-Print December 3, 2009
Journal of Andrology 2009, DOI:10.2164/jandrol.109.008573

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Salvage Penile Curvature Correction Surgery

CHENG-HSING HSIEH , HENG-SHUEN CHEN , WEN-YUAN LEE , KUO-LIANG CHEN , CHAO-HSIANG CHANG , and GENG-LONG HSU *

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: genglonghsu{at}gmail.com.

It is commonly believed that coarser suture materials should be used to provide sufficient tenacity in surgery for penile curvature correction. We report our 15-year experience of fine sutures in a second operation in 31 patients who underwent prior curvature correction elsewhere with coarser sutures, resulting in recurrent penile curvature. Suture materials used in prior surgeries in these patients were either 2-0 or 3-0 nylon sutures. In this series, all 31 patients underwent a modified Nesbit procedure at the level of the collagen bundles using finer sutures. Prior to July 1998, 10 men underwent salvage surgery using 4-0 polyglactin sutures. Thereafter, we have adapted 6-0 nylon sutures for another 21 patients. We categorized the patients into the polyglactin (n=10) and nylon (n=21) groups respectively. Overall, 29 patients were available for a follow-up while using the abridged five-item version of the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF-5) scoring system with 21 patients in the nylon group. We have found cavernosography a practical and reliable method to objectively assess penile morphology in these patients. The penile morphology both subjectively and objectively was excellent in all patients, except for one in each group. Erectile function restoration showed a trend of satisfaction in the polyglactin group and based on IIEF-5 was significantly improved in the nylon group (14.2 ± 3.6 vs. 21.9 ± 2.1, n=20, p<0.001). These results suggest that in penile tunical surgery, fine sutures such as 6-0 nylon may result in better penile morphology and functional outcomes.


Key words: Microsurgery • Penis • Surgery • collagen bundle • outer longitudinal layer penis • suture material • tunical alignment






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