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

Autor: M L, Martínez del Castillo, C, Miguélez Lago, M, García Mérida, E, Galiano Duro, L, Ceres Ruiz, E, Valls Moreno, P, Valdés Morillo
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Actas urologicas espanolas. 24(10)
ISSN: 0210-4806
Popis: 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.
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