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Last updated: 02/17/2009

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Recently, it has been reported that surgeons insert approximately 20,000 penile implants into American men yearly. The most common device is a multi-component inflatable implant (approximately 45% of all implants). Semi-rigid rods...

account for about 35% of the implants. Self-contained devices comprise approximately 20% of implants.



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A penile prosthesis is a medical device implanted in a penis during a surgical procedure to enable an erection for satisfactory and satisfying sexual intercourse. The device is not used only in men with organic or treatment-resistant psychogenic impotence who fail to achieve and maintain an erection using erectile dysfunction drugs. A penile prosthesis is also used in the final stage of plastic surgery phalloplasty to complete female to male (transman) gender reassignment surgery as well as during total phalloplasty for adult and child patients that need male genital modification because of congenital anomalies, iatrogenic, accidental or intentional penile trauma, and micropenis.


From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_prosthesis

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