Penile conditions

Question 1

What is physiological fibrosis of the penis?

Answer 1

Normal fibrosis of the penis after coming out of nappies

Question 2

How do you help physiological fibrosis of the penis?

Answer 2

Stretching out in the bath and steroid creams can help loosen it

Question 3

When does penis fibrosis require surgery?

Answer 3

If it looks scarred/fibrotic as this could ascend up the urethra and cause urinary problems

Question 4

What is paraphimosis?

Answer 4

retracted foreskin in uncircumcised male cannot be returned to its normal anatomical position

Question 5

What is the treatment for paraphimosis?

Answer 5

Iced glove, squeeze out oedema

Question 6

What is hypospadias?

Answer 6

Midline defect of renal tract where urethra exits in the wrong place (underside of penis)

Question 7

What is hydrocele?

Answer 7

A ‘bag of fluid’ in the scrotum. Tends to drain at night, oedema comes and goes.

Question 8

What is the treatment for hydrocele?

Answer 8

Wait until past the age of 2 and then surgery

Question 9

Is hydrocele painful

Answer 9

Shouldn’t be

Question 10

What should be done if you cannot palpate undescended testes?

Answer 10

Scope to try and find it

Question 11

Why do undescended testes need to be descended?

Answer 11

So they can be examined in later life