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Hair tourniquet
Published in Alisa McQueen, S. Margaret Paik, Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Illustrated Clinical Cases, 2018
This patient is presenting with a hair tourniquet. This is a common medical condition, wherein a hair or thread becomes tied around a finger, toe, or penis, resulting in distal edema. This is considered a medical emergency, as prolonged compression can lead to ischemia and even loss of the affected digit.
Stepwise approach in the management of penile strangulation and penile preservation: 15-year experience in a tertiary care hospital
Published in Arab Journal of Urology, 2019
Sandeep Puvvada, Priyatham Kasaraneni, Ramesh Desi Gowda, Prasad Mylarappa, Manasa T, Kanishk Dokania, Abhishek Kulkarni, Vivek Jayakumar
Most of the case reports have a single constricting foreign body, whereas we had a patient with penile strangulation with two foreign bodies (Figure 8). However, a case report of penile strangulation with seven rings has been reported [8]. The most common motive for penile strangulation in our present study was sexual gratification (four of nine patients) followed by desire to enhance erection, assault, and hair tourniquet syndrome. The two patients who used a foreign body to enhance their erection had a history of erectile dysfunction. A 1-year-old patient had penile strangulation due to hair tourniquet syndrome, as a medically unqualified individual applied a horse hair to control bleeding at the post-circumcision site. Hair tourniquet syndrome has been published for penile hair [9,10], but penile strangulation from the application of horse hair has not been reported before. Penile strangulation has even been reported in literature in Parkinson’s disease [11]. Three of our present patients had a mental disorder, so after treatment of their penile strangulation, they were referred to a psychiatrist for psychotherapy.