Pre-operative assessment of Peyronie's disease using colour Doppler sonography.
Colour Doppler ultrasonography was used to assess 39 patients with Peyronie's disease with a suspected organic cause for their impotence. In 20 patients who complained of a uniform loss of erection, the impotence was likely to be functional in origin (90%) or occasionally venogenic (10%), the penile arterial blood flow being normal. However, patients who complained of distal flaccidity were likely to have an organic cause for their impotence (68%). This was due to proximal arterial disease (10%), plaque involvement of the distal vessels (37%), veno-occlusive dysfunction (5%) or to the soft glans syndrome (16%).
Ralph
D J
DJ
St Peter's Hospital, Department of Radiology, London.
Hughes
T
T
Lees
W R
WR
Pryor
J P
JP
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010410:Penile Erection; D010411:Penile Induration / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D010413:Penis / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D014463:Ultrasonography