title: Pre-operative assessment of Peyronie's disease using colour Doppler sonography.
abstract: 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%).
authors.affiliation: St Peter's Hospital, Department of Radiology, London.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Ralph
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Lees
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Pryor
mesh_terms: 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