title: Evaluation and treatment of priapism.
abstract: We herein review the last 29 patients with priapism treated at our hospitals with respect to the physiology and pathophysiology of erection and priapism, respectively, and present a rational approach to the management of priapism. Emphasis is given to the corpus cavernosum to corpus spongiosum shunt with a vascular anastomosis technique.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010413:Penis / Q000601:surgery; D011317:Priapism / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*