World J Mens Health. 2016 Aug;34(2):153-153. English.
Published online Aug 23, 2016.
Copyright © 2016 Korean Society for Sexual Medicine and Andrology
book-review

Book Review: Curious Journey to the New Textbook of Penile Augmentation: Informed Text Briefing

Nam Cheol Park
    • Department of Urology, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea. Email: pnc@pusan.ac.kr
  • Nam Cheol Park;Sae Woong Kim;Du Geon Moon, editors.
    Penile Augmentation.
    2016. Verlag Berlin Heidelberg: Springer ISBN: 978-3-662-46752-7. .

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

The men's desire to have larger and longer penis have created endless medical demands throughout human history. Until up to date, various medical skills for penile augmentation have developed in aspect of experimental and clinical outcome. Recently with throwing away socially unacceptable ideas, the need for penile augmentation is considered as equivalent level with mammoplasty for breast augmentation in women for cosmetic and psychological reason. Concurrently advanced technologies in medical material and tissue engineering provide a variety of options to features functional plastic surgery as well as defected tissue compensation procedures.

This creative description works accordingly presents the state of art knowledge on the penile augmentation with 272 pages and 124 full-colored helpful illustrations clarifying penile surgical anatomy, operative procedures by experienced surgeons from the traditional fat transfer to the penile disassembly technique, the newest tissue engineering techniques by researchers with valuable data of world top level, auxiliary medical devices, and how to reconstruct for damaged penis by a quack or accident. Obviously this text book will be a great guidebook in clinical practice for all who are involved or interested in the penile augmentation procedures.

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CONFLICT OF INTEREST:No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.


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