Transplanted Penis Removed.

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:09 AM EDT

Article Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

health, china, surgery, penis, transplant, psychological-problems, organ-tranplant

Chinese surgeons who performed the world's first penis transplant had to remove the new organ after the recipient developed severe psychological problems.

Doctors say the operation was a surgical success but psychological issues suffered by the man and his wife meant the donated organ had to be removed after two weeks, The Guardian reports.

The man had the surgery after his own organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year, leaving him with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse.

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goodcookn

What kind of accident do you have to be in to make your penis "damaged beyond repair"? And yet it sounds like the rest of him is ok, kind of freeky!

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#1 - Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:03 PM EDT

{"commentId":296092,"authorDomain":"ozroan"}

ozroan

Hmmm . I think the Bobbit family might be able to answer that sort of question better than me.

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1 vote

#1.1 - Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:16 PM EDT

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Nycam

Oh, gee, anything can happen to a penis. Slam it in a car door, get it caught in a swimming pool filter (vacuum cleaner, robo-vac), have your girlfriend leave before you're done, leave the ice bag on it too long, mince it along with the onions at the nude cook-out, have the dog playing too rough with it, have a girlfriend's name tattoo re-removed, get it jammed in the mix-master, pop it through one glory hole too many.... oh, and marry a Bobbit : )
Why do you ask?

lol

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1 vote

#1.2 - Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:04 PM EDT

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lauhal

You forgot ravenous ferrets.

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2 votes

#2 - Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:35 PM EDT

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AVLEN

was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year, leaving him with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse.

Poor wife....

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2 votes

#3 - Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:46 AM EDT

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Darrell J. Rohl

The inability to urinate strikes me as a bit more sympathy-inducing.

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2 votes

#3.1 - Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:51 PM EDT

{"commentId":303709,"authorDomain":"avlen"}

AVLEN

ha, I guess you're right.

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2 votes

#3.2 - Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:19 PM EDT

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Penis Transplant Removed After Two Weeks	Associated Press	Tue Sep 19	3
First Penis Transplant Reversed After Two Weeks	Reuters	Tue Sep 19	2
First penis transplant patient hated it	PhysOrg.com	Tue Sep 19	1

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