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| Title |
An unusual delayed complication of paraffin self-injection for penile girth augmentation
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Urology, December 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2490-13-66 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Mario De Siati, Oscar Selvaggio, Giuseppe Di Fino, Giuseppe Liuzzi, Paolo Massenio, Francesca Sanguedolce, Giuseppe Carrieri, Luigi Cormio |
| Abstract |
Penile self-injection of various oils is still carried out among Eastern Europe people for penile girth augmentation despite the potential destructive complications of this practice are well known. Penile reactions to such foreign bodies include scarring, abscess formation, ulceration, and even Fournier's gangrene; voiding problems due to mineral oil self-injection have been reported only once. To our knowledge, we describe the first case of paraffin self-injection for penile girth augmentation presenting with acute urinary retention. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 6 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 50% |
| Italy | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 2 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 28 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 27 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 6 | 21% |
| Researcher | 5 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 4 | 14% |
| Unknown | 5 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 39% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 2 | 7% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 4% |
| Mathematics | 1 | 4% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 4 | 14% |
| Unknown | 8 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 December 2013.
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#7,934,253
of 23,885,338 outputs
Outputs from BMC Urology
#264
of 779 outputs
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#95,303
of 314,821 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Urology
#5
of 15 outputs
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