An Egyptian cut off his own penis

[bambam]

I trained in orthopaedics at Duke which in the late 70s and early 80s was one of the pioneers of microsurgery, replanting cut off and mangled fingers and hands. We did a penile replant while I was there as a resident.

That sounds like hard....err, difficult surgery. Was it a lengthy process?

Not so bad for a replant - 3-4 hours. Replanting fingers are a lot more difficult as there are more structures to repair - bones, tendons, nerves, arteries, veins, and skin. Penis is only arteries, veins and skin.

[Marlow]

The guide denied it.

Of course he did - they don't want all the guests whipping it out and playing with it! :twisted:

[rasb]

I trained in orthopaedics at Duke which in the late 70s and early 80s was one of the pioneers of microsurgery, replanting cut off and mangled fingers and hands. We did a penile replant while I was there as a resident.

That sounds like hard....err, difficult surgery. Was it a lengthy process?

Not so bad for a replant - 3-4 hours. Replanting fingers are a lot more difficult as there are more structures to repair - bones, tendons, nerves, arteries, veins, and skin. Penis is only arteries, veins and skin.

No nerves ? All joking aside, I would have thought that would be the most sensitive part of the surgery...

[rasb]

Someone should share this thread (no pun intended) with Robin Williams, and get him to do some freestyling standup (no pun intended) on this topic....
I am lmao already.....oooops, more surgery required :wink:

[bambam]

I trained in orthopaedics at Duke which in the late 70s and early 80s was one of the pioneers of microsurgery, replanting cut off and mangled fingers and hands. We did a penile replant while I was there as a resident.

That sounds like hard....err, difficult surgery. Was it a lengthy process?

Not so bad for a replant - 3-4 hours. Replanting fingers are a lot more difficult as there are more structures to repair - bones, tendons, nerves, arteries, veins, and skin. Penis is only arteries, veins and skin.

No nerves ? All joking aside, I would have thought that would be the most sensitive part of the surgery...

Yeah, I guess there were some nerves, but that would be an easy repair. Much larger than digital nerves and arteries - at least in most cases. (I had to eventually segue into some innuendo on this topic.)

[cacique]

actually the world's first penile transplant was just recently performed (in the last 2 yrs or so). the donor was deceased and the recipient had had an industrial accident, i believe. unfort. the recipient could not stomach it psychologically, and it was eventually removed.