title: [Peripheral nerve injury and male sexual dysfunction].
abstract: The genital organ is innervated by autonomic and somatic nerve. The former is both sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve and the later is comprised by sensory and motor fibers. The symptoms of male sexual dysfunction are sexopathy, erectile dysfunction, disorder of ejaculation and orgasm, and pianism. Not only different symptom but the same symptom can be induced by different injured nerve. The relationship between peripheral nerve injury and male sexual dysfunction should be understood correctly.
authors.affiliation: Department of preclinical medicine, Medical college of Suzhou University, Suzhou 215123, China.
authors.forename: Yi-Sheng
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Ruan
authors.forename: Guang-You
authors.initials: GY
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shen
mesh_terms: D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010275:Parasympathetic Nervous System / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000293:injuries; D010388:Pelvis / Q000294:innervation*; D059348:Peripheral Nerve Injuries; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000209:etiology*; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000150:complications; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000293:injuries; D020196:Trauma, Nervous System / Q000150:complications*