Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Medicine and Health Sciences Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Surgery

PDF

Aga Khan University

Pathology, East Africa

Series

2009

Articles 1 - 1 of 1

Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences

Cancer Of The Penis: Case Report, D. K. Kiptoon, P. M. Ngugi, F. S. Rana Apr 2009

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 …