title: Penile prosthesis surgery: review of ten-year experience and examination of reoperations.
abstract: Our ten-year experience from September, 1975, to December, 1985, with 417 penile prostheses in 290 patients is presented. Arteriosclerosis and diabetes mellitus were the two most common causes of impotence in our patient population. The Scott inflatable penile prosthesis accounted for the majority of all implants and all device failures. Complications leading to device failure and/or reoperation occurred in 36 percent of all prostheses. However, including repairs, 91 percent of patients were left with a functional prosthesis. Examination of reoperated patients showed an average increase in corporeal length of 1.67 cm with repeat prosthesis operations (p less than 0.001). No increase in incidence of prosthesis failure could be shown after multiple reoperations.
authors.affiliation: Division of Urology, Stanford University Medical Center, California.
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Kabalin
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kessler
mesh_terms: D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010413:Penis / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D019736:Prostheses and Implants / Q000009:adverse effects; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012086:Reoperation; D012189:Retrospective Studies