Table 1 Causes of penile Mondor’s disease
From: Penile Mondor’s disease
Traumatic etiology | Infectious etiology | Surgical etiology | Oncologic etiology | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
• Causes of the disease include frequent, severe, and prolonged sexual intercourse | • Syphilis | • Repair of inguinal hernia | • Cancer in the pelvic region | • Use of intracavernous drugs |
• Penile trauma | • Candida infections | • Orchiopexy | • Metastatic pancreas cancer and migratory phlebitides due to paraneoplastic syndromes | • Abuse of intravenous drugs |
• Prolonged sexual abstinence | • Distant infections | • Varicoselectomy | • Tendency to thrombosis | |
• Use of vacuum | • History of sexually transmitted diseases | • Thrombophilia | ||
• Body building exercises | • Behçet’s disease | • Venous occlusion caused by filled bladder |