[Corrective surgery of penile inward curvature].
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the corporoplasty techniques performed on 59 patients to correct congenital penile curvature and Peyronie's disease.


METHODS
From april 1991 to december 2001, 39 Nesbit technique, 12 Ruiz-Castañé method and 8 Essed-Schröeder procedure were performed on forty-four congenital curvatures and fifteen Peyronie's diseases. The mean age was 24 years old. Trying to hide the knots, in all patients except five a nonabsorbable inverting sutures were placed.


RESULTS
The mean follow-up was 12 months. Postoperatively, 53 patients (86%) had satisfactory cosmetic and functional results. Four patients of five with absorbable sutures had residual curvature which needed another successful surgical correction. One patient complained of penile shortening, one of glans hypoaesthesia, one of foreskin oedema and five of palpable plication sutures. No differences were found depending on the applied surgical technique.


CONCLUSIONS
The results reported are in accordance with the literature showing a higher recurrence rate with the absorbable sutures. The outcome is very similar with the three described techniques.
Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario Valdecilla, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander.
J A
JA
Portillo Martín
M A
MA
Correas Gómez
M A
MA
Rado Velásquez
J L
JL
Gutiérrez Baños
B
B
Martín García
R
R
Hernández Rodríguez
J I
JI
Del Valle Schaan
A
A
Roca Edreira
A
A
Hernández Castrillo
F
F
Ruiz Izquierdo
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010411:Penile Induration / Q000601:surgery*; D010413:Penis / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013536:Suture Techniques; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D013520:Urologic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data