Penis

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The penis is occasionally afflicted by disease that the pathologist see.

It is afflicted by common skin pathologies.

Diseases

Inflammatory

Infectious

  • HPV infection.
  • HSV infection.
  • Scabies.
  • Pediculosis pubis.
  • Syphilis.
  • Gonorrhea.
  • Lymphogranuloma venereum.
  • Granuloma inguinale.
  • Chancroid.
  • Molluscum contagiosum.
  • Filariasis - elephantiasis.

Other non-tumour

Pre-cancerous

Neoplastic

Others:

Specific conditions

Phimosis

General

  • Cannot be retract forskin.
  • Clinical diagnosis.

Microscopic

Features:[1]

  • +/-Inflammation.
  • Fibrosis.

Notes: Findings non-specific.

See also

References

  1. Humphrey, Peter A; Dehner, Louis P; Pfeifer, John D (2008). The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology (1st ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 391. ISBN 978-0781765275.