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The Penis

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Essentials of Anatomic Pathology

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Like in other skin- or mucosal-covered organs, the penis is affected with a myriad of developmental, degenerative, metabolic, inflammatory, and neoplastic conditions. Many of these diseases do not affect the penis in an exclusive manner. This chapter, however, is restricted to the surgical pathology of the penis and as such will emphasize, after a succinct coverage of anatomical considerations and congenital anomalies, benign and malignant neoplastic processes. Tumorlike conditions exclusively affecting the penis will also be described. For the description of precancerous lesions and the subclassification of the various subtypes of penile squamous cell carcinoma, the recently published WHO classification method will be presented.

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias Medicas, Department Anatomia Patologica, Hotpital de Clinicas, Universidad Nacional de Ascuncion, Dr Montero 658 eq. Dr Mazzei, Asuncion, Paraguay, 1120

    Diego F. Sanchez MD

  2. Department of Anatomia Patologica, Instituto de Patologia e Investigacion, Brizuela 325, Asuncion, Paraguay, 1584

    Sofía Cañete MD & Antonio L. Cubilla MD

  3. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center Medicine, 6431 Fannon, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

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Sanchez, D.F., Cañete, S., Ayala, G., Cubilla, A.L. (2016). The Penis. In: Cheng, L., Bostwick, D. (eds) Essentials of Anatomic Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23380-2_40

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