Penis Strangulation by Metallic Rings

Abstract

Penile strangulation (“penile tourniquet syndrome”) is a rare serious injury that occurs mostly amoung children and may be accidental or intentional. In adults usually it is volontary as a consequence of sexual drive arousing manouvres. The severity of the strangulation depends on different elements such as: length of the lesions, materials used and degree of strangulation. In this report, we describe a psicopathic man with penis and two hand's fingers strangulation caused by the use of metallic rings placed 2 days before that caused a permanent urethrocutaneous fistula.