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Penile Shortening Following implant from 6 1/2 to 3 1/2″

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

What a loss and how does this happen and what can be done?  In this particular patient I pulled on the head of the penis and the tips were not in the mid glans but at the distal shaft, a loss of 1/2 to 3/4″ right there.  Had an expandable implant been installed with usage the patient might have gained another 1/2 inch.

When inappropriately short implants are used, the penis may just scar down to a smaller size and the only remedy is to try traction before another procedure or a penile lengthening surgical technique which can vary from pubic dermatolipectomy, release of the suspensory ligament, or release of the neruro-vascular bundle and urethra and apply a patch graft to help extend the corpora.  This is very advanced and risk laden surgery as opposed to simply installing an expander cylinder, but requested by a very insistent patient.

Harold Reed, M.D.