• Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.627-630
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• 2007

A mixed-breed hunting dog suffered penile amputation and lacerations in the femoral and inguinal areas while hunting wild boar. The penis was replanted by anastomoses of the urethra, cavernous body, and the left and right dorsal veins of the penis. The transected penis recovered anatomically and functionally. No evidence of postoperative necrosis or edema was detected at the distal portion of the penis. In addition, fistulas and stenosis were not found on urethrogram 20 days after the surgery. Aside from surgery, we performed experimental cavernosography to identify the importance of the anastomosis of the dorsal veins of the penis in three beagle dogs. The cavernosograms revealed that, the contrast medium, which was injected into the bulbus glandis, drained by the left and right dorsal veins of the penis, then converged into one vessel at the ischial arch and diverged into the left and right internal pudendal veins. Thus, reanastomosis of the left and right dorsal veins of the penis in cases of transected canine penis appears to be important for positive postoperative prognosis.