Outside the Buck’s fascia is the layer of dartos fascia and outer to it is the skin. Between the tunica albuginea and buck’s fascia run the neuro-vascular bundle typically at 2 and 10 o’clock position. Both the corpora cavernosa are invested in Buck’s fascia. Tunica albuginea is a layer which is 0.5 mm thick when stretched during erection and it is 2 mm thick when penis is flaccid. This blood comes through internal pudendal artery. These sinusoids fill with blood during erection. Conservative management (delaying the management) may lead to devastating functional, physical and psychological complications.3Penis is composed of two corporal bodies, corpora cavernosa are joined by a septum and a corpus spongiosum investing the urethra.4 Corpus cavernosum is surrounded by tunica albuginea containing sinusoids in it. The purpose of this review is to introduce this subject in a concise and simple manner so that problem may be identified early and get its prompt management done at some specialized center.
Penile fracture is defined as fracture of the tunica albuginea of copus cavernosum of penis due to blunt trauma to erect penis.2 Because it is a relatively rare emergency, our colleagues may not be knowing much of its details. Penile fracture is a real urological emergency and underreported1 due to the shyness to describe it therefore it leads to complications like erectile dysfunction later on.
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