Acquired curvature or Peyronie’s disease It is a disease, which produces curvatures or changes in the penis anatomy and there is loss of the penetration capacity and erection. The more frequent symptoms are: pain in the erection, curvature of penis, loss of erection quality, shortening and diminishing of the thickness of penis, notkeeping of erection and one or several small nodules (tumors) which are perceived under the skin of the penis. Sometimes the flow of blood of the penis can be restricted by scars causing the gland to remain completely soft. When this happens it is either difficult of impossible to obtain a penetration. It is common that the Peyronie’s disease affect men from 20 to 80 years old. It is a pathology that can be associated to diabetes or to a consequence of urethral probes, traumatisms, penile fractures, and more recently it has been observed in young men under high levels of stress.

 

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