Point-of-care ultrasound used to exclude penile fracture

This is a case report of a superficial penile hematoma that was difficult to distinguish clinically from a penile fracture. Such cases occur with relative frequency, and because definitive treatment is an urgent surgery, timely diagnosis is essential to avoid complications. Typical imaging modalities such as cavernosonography and magnetic resonance imaging can be invasive (cavernosonography) or time consuming (magnetic resonance imaging) and may not be readily available. Ultrasound has been used successfully in such cases, and, in this case, we used point-of-care ultrasound combined with a brief period of observation to exclude penile fracture.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Critical Ultrasound Journal

• Publication date

  2012-07-13

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/2036-7902-4-17PMID 22863024PMCID 3502120
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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