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Cancer Of The Penis: Case Report, D. K. Kiptoon, P. M. Ngugi, F. S. Rana
Cancer Of The Penis: Case Report, D. K. Kiptoon, P. M. Ngugi, F. S. Rana
Pathology, East Africa
Two patients with penile carcinoma are presented after management at a district hospital in Kenya. Both had undergone ritual circumcision as teenagers and presented late. HR was a 73 year old who presented with a fungating penile mass for which a partial penectomy was performed after wedge biopsy confirmed malignancy. He thereafter declined to have the surgical specimen sent for histology and took the amputated stump for burial in his compound to avoid bad omen. GK was 25 years old and presented with a fungating mass and underwent partial penectomy after a histological diagnosis was made. He absconded from follow-up …