Successful macrosurgical reimplantation of an amputated penis.

Received January 2009 Accepted March 2009 INTRODUCTION Self-mutilations of the external genitals in psychiatric patients is also known as Klingsor syndrome. (1) These patients show a high tendency to repeating self-aggressive actions, especially when their medical therapy is discontinued.(2,3) In 1929, Ehrlich reported the first successful penile reimplantation of an amputated penis.(4) Although reimplantation of the amputated penis has a high success rate, there may be some remaining squeals such as skin necrosis and urethral stricture or fistula.(5) We report a case of a macroscopic reimplantation of an amputated penis.