Management of Disastrous Complications of Penile Implant Surgery

摘要

Rationale: Penile Prosthesis Implantation (PPI) is the definitive treatment for Erectile Dysfunction not responsive to conservative management strategies. Furthermore, it is a staple of surgical treatment of severe Peyronie's Disease (PD) and phallic reconstruction. Expert implantologists occasionally face disastrous complications of penile implant surgery which can prove to be very challenging. In this article we present a selected number of case reports which exemplify this kind of situations and discuss management strategies while also commenting on plausible aetiologies.