A successful case of urethral reconstruction in a child with persistent urethral bleeding due to an extensive cavernous haemangioma.
A 10-year-old boy presented with long-standing urethral bleeding from a cavernous haemangioma of the penis associated with Klipper-Weber syndrome. Bleeding was controlled by limited local excision and the urethra was successfully reconstructed with a full-thickness skin graft applied directly on to this cavernous haemangioma. From time to time split-skin grafts have been used to repair the defects following excision of simple haemangiomata but we could find no case report in the literature of a free skin graft applied directly on to a cavernous haemangioma.
D002648:Child; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010412:Penile Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D014521:Urethra / Q000601:surgery*