[Spontaneous autoembolization in a child with high-flow post-traumatic priapism]

Actas Urol Esp. 2000 Nov-Dec;24(10):820-4. doi: 10.1016/s0210-4806(00)72554-x.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

There are two sort of priapism: the venous or low flow priapism, that is usually painful, and the arterial or high flow one, painless and rare, especially in childhood. We present a case of a boy 5 years old, who 6 days after to suffer a perineal closed traumatism, had a painless and arterial priapism, with aneurism and fistula of the dorsal penile arteria, that was resolute spontaneously through self-embolization, 11 days after. We review the bibliography of 14 cases of arterial posttraumatic priapism in childhood, without find any case resolute by spontaneous self-embolization.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Blood Flow Velocity
  • Child, Preschool
  • Embolism
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Perineum / injuries*
  • Priapism / etiology*
  • Priapism / physiopathology
  • Remission, Spontaneous
  • Wounds, Nonpenetrating / complications*