The relationship between the localization and etiology in children?s penile tourniquet syndrome: A case report and literature review

Abstract

Mustafa Yasar Ozdamar, Kursad Zengin, Serhat Tanik, Sebahattin Albayrak, Adnan Gucuk, Mesut Gurdal

Though the penile tourniquet syndrome is rarely seen, it is a disease which causes complications from a simple edema to severe necrosis and amputation. Whether simple or complicated, the penile strangulation that is the causative factor, except babies, whom are usually questionable. Our aim is to investigate the relation between perpetrators and location of disease in the penile tourniquet syndrome.