Published in Scientific Works. Series C. Veterinary Medicine, Vol. LXX, Issue 2
Written by Dorin ȚOGOE, Nicoleta Andreea MINCĂ, Roxana Maria TURCU
Paraphimosis it is an emergency which represent the inability to retract the penis into the preputial sheets. Paraphimosis may be congenital resulting from preputial hypoplasia and small preputial orifice or could be acquired resulting from constriction of preputial orifice with hair, trauma, masturbation or coitus with persistent glans engorgement. The treatment goal is to reduce the dimensions of the glans, allowing it to be replaced into the sheets, before any severe damage appear. Poor management can lead to penile amputation due to ischemia, gangrenous necrosis, self-trauma with urethral lesions which impair urination. The study presents a severe case of paraphimosis, due to self-masturbation and preputial hair rings, with extensive necrotic lesions due to ischemia and self-mutilation
lesions of a 2,8 years old Mioritic Shepard intact male. The severity of the vascular changes with irreversible damage of the penis and the extent of the self-mutilation injuries, required the scrotal urethrostomy and the amputation of the penis, with satisfactory results even if minor surgical complications were observed in the immediate postoperative
period.
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