Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Case Reports
. 2020 Oct 26;2020(10):rjaa427.
doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjaa427. eCollection 2020 Oct.

Peno-scrotal degloving injury following motor vehicle accident-a case report

Aabishkar Bhattarai  1 , Niraj Thapa  2 , Bijaya Karki  3 , Alok Atreya  4
Affiliations
Case Reports

Peno-scrotal degloving injury following motor vehicle accident-a case report

Aabishkar Bhattarai et al. J Surg Case Rep. .

Abstract

Male genital injuries in the form of avulsed laceration of penis and scrotum are less frequent injuries in urological practice. The cases that occur are mostly caused by road traffic accidents, animal attacks, machinery-related accidents and physical/sexual assaults. Here, we report a case of a 28-year-old male with avulsion and traumatic degloving of the penile and scrotal skin with the exposure of the cavernous and spongy penile body, bilateral testes and total amputation of scrotal skin secondary to motor vehicle accident from Nepal. The patient was managed by emergency surgical debridement and reconstruction of the avulsed penile skin and burial of testis in the medial thigh pockets with primary suturing and hemostasis of the amputated scrotal region, which healed with satisfactory esthetic results with normal voiding function and erection of penis.

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Complete degloving of penile shaft and scrotum.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Both the Testes buried in the medial thigh forming a medial thigh pocket and penile shaft sutured with the abdominal skin.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Revised full thickness skin graft sutured with Prolene 4-0 over the penile shaft.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

Similar articles

See all similar articles

Cited by

References

    1. Finical SJ, Arnold PG. Care of the degloved penis and scrotum: a 25-year experience. Plast Reconstr Surg 1999;104:2074–8. - PubMed
    1. Gencosmanoglu R, Bilkay U, Alper M, Gurler T, Cagdas A. Late results of split-grafted penoscrotal avulsion injuries. J Trauma-Inj Infect Crit Care 1995;39:1201–3. - PubMed
    1. Brown JB, Fryer MP. Peno-scrotal skin losses, repaired by implantation and free skin grafting: report of known normal offspring (preliminary report on total and deep losses). Ann Surg 1957;145:656–64. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Terrier JE, Paparel P, Gadegbeku B, Ruffion A, Jenkins LC, N'Diaye A. Genitourinary injuries after traffic accidents: analysis of a registry of 162,690 victims. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2017;82:1087–93. - PubMed
    1. Aineskog H, Huss F. A case report of a complete degloving injury of the penile skin. Int J Surg Case Rep 2016;29:1–3. - PMC - PubMed

Publication types