Penile Curvature: Surgical Techniques, Cases

This video includes information about penile curvature and methods of surgical treatment of curvature correction.

Congenital penile curvature presents penile bending of a normally formed penis due to corporal disproportion. Besides this isolated penile curvature, penile bending can appear as a part of hypospadias or epispadias anomalies.

Direction of penile curvature can be ventral, dorsal, lateral or in several planes. The curvature is usually most obvious during erection, but resistance to straightening is often apparent in the flaccid state as well.

Penile angulation not only causes potential sexual dysfunction, difficulty and pain during intercourse or total coital incapacity, but also causes severe psychological problems.

Surgical correction is required in order to obtain a functionally and cosmetically normal penis.

In children, straightening of the penis is achieved by simple plication of the tunica albuginea on the longer side.
In adolescents and adults correction of curvature can be done either by plication of the incised tunica albuginea or by grafting the concave side of the corpora cavernosa.