1Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, J.N. Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
2Senior Resident, Department of Surgery, J.N.Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
3Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, J.N.Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
4Junior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, J.N.Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Online published on 7 August, 2013.
Degloving of the penis is reported rarely in forensic medicine as it has often been a topic of discussion in the surgical discipline. The first clause of Sec 320 IPC stands for emasculation discussed in legal medicine. Degloving of the penis may occur as a result of road traffic accidents, or direct injuries from assault, violent sexual activity specially sexual asphyxia; the ill effect of the tools in agricultural and and other machines which a person closely handles.
Here is a case of accidental degloving of the penis which resulted from the dragging force derived from the body itself. The entire force that led to degloving was due to the contact of the abdominal area below the umbilicus and the road after falling flat from a moving vehicle. There was no history of being run over by another vehicle.
Penis, Degloving, Accidental
