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Penile Pathomorphologic Entities Seen at A Tertiary Health Facility
Corresponding Author(s) : Innocent Emmanuel
Journal of Health Sciences and Practice,
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2025): Journal of Health Sciences and Practice (JHSP)
Abstract
Introduction: The human penis is a cylindrical cucumberlike external organ that “stands tall,” defining the phenotypic male. The diseases of the penis are rife and may impact heavily on psychosocial well-being of a man. The aim of this research is to study the clinical and histologic patterns of all penile biopsies received at a Nigerian tertiary hospital over a 10years period.
Methodology: The work was a descriptive study of all histologically diagnosed cases of penile pathologies seen at the Jos University Teaching Hospital between 1st January 2003 and December 31st, 2022. The age, clinical characteristics (site and symptoms) and histological diagnosis were obtained from the records. The data obtained was entered into Microsoft excel and then exported into Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) 2016, and presented on frequency tables as proportions, simple frequencies, percentages, range, and measures of central tendencies.
Result: There were 14 histologically diagnosed cases of penile pathologies during the period of the study. The age range was 1-71years, with the mean age, median age and modal ages of 28.64+23.11years, 24.5years and 25.0years respectively. Table 1. The commonest diagnostic entity was verrucae (condyloma acuminata) accounting for 6(42.9%) cases while Neurofibroma was the least with 1 (7.1%) case. The symptoms of a mass, itching, pain, and ulceration were seen in these patients. The presence of a mass was the symptom with the highest frequency while ulceration had the least frequency. All cases seen were circumcised males.
Conclusion: This study showed that most penile diseases in our environment are due to pathologies related to sexually transmitted infections with the HPVs, the condyloma acuminata and squamous cell carcinoma. The rarity of disorders of the penis could be attributable to circumcision and therefore vaccination against the HPV should be encouraged in a massive scale to complement prevention of development of the disease.