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. 2021 Nov;15(11):E614-E616.
doi: 10.5489/cuaj.7027.

Case - Penile verrucous epithelial hyperplasia

Jonathan Fadel  1 , Michele Lodde  1 , Louis-Phillipe Gagnon  2 , Sylvie Fraitag  3 , Katherine Moore  1
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Case - Penile verrucous epithelial hyperplasia

Jonathan Fadel et al. Can Urol Assoc J. 2021 Nov.
No abstract available

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Competing interests:: The authors do not report any competing personal or financial interests related to this work.

Figures

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Fig. 1
1.5 cm beige ulcerative and crateriform lesion on the right lateral side of the glans.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Histology showed marked epidermal hyperplasia with numerous dyskeratotic cells scattered at different levels of this epidermis. There was no atypia nor mitotic figures or koilocytes.
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Fig. 3
At one-month followup, two new lesions near the previous surgical excision area were noted.
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Fig. 4
Two months later, a new lesion appeared on the right side of the glans at great distance from the previous resection sites. Partial penectomy with glans resection and entire corpora cavernosa preservation was performed.
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