This is an 'extremely rare' case. In early August 2019, a 63-year-old man went to the emergency room at Lincoln Hospital in New York, United States, complaining of a simple knee injury following a fall on a pavement. But after a series of examinations, the doctors discovered that their patient was in fact suffering from a very strange ailment...
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A rare disease that turned his love bone... into bone
The first examination carried out in the hospital did not detect any significant damage to the sexagenarian's joint. But the second test, a pelvic x-ray taken as a precaution, found the man to have hip deformity and complete calcification... of the penis.
As explained by the doctors, who detailed their unusual finding in the medical journal Urology Case Reports, the patient suffered from a rare form of Peyronie's disease, a disease that affects between 3 and 9% of the male population, mainly aged 45 to 65 years, and causes deformities and pain in the penis, which results in hardening of the flesh, which then becomes similar to bone to the touch.
The patient left the hospital
This diagnosis is unusual, to say the least, since, according to the article published in Urology Case Reports, cases of complete ossification remain extremely rare. In total, less than 40 similar cases have been identified in the international medical literature, the article said.
Unfortunately, the doctors could not attempt a treatment on the sexagenarian, who left the hospital against medical advice before disappearing into the wild...
