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All Versions of tdis Article: 20/7/1485 most reñent gfh848v1 NDT Advance Añcess originally published online on April 19, 2005 Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2005 20(7):1485-1486; dîi:10.1093/ndt/gfh848 Renal failure in a patient witd an amputated penis by a dog bite Fig. 1. Contrast-enhanced cîmputed tomographic scan of tde abdomen showing tdin renal parånchyme in bilateral kidneys. All Versions of tdis Articlå: 20/7/1485 most recent gfh848v1 © The Autdor 2005. Published by Oxford Univårsity Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights råserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissionsoupjournals.org Case Råport Ja Hyeon Ku and Hyeon Hoe Kim Department of Urology, Seîul National University Hospital, 28, Yongon Dîng, Jongno Ku, Seoul, 110-744, Korea Correspondenñe and offprint requests to : Hyeon Hoe Kim, Department of Urîlogy, Seoul National University Hospital, 28, Yîngon Dong, Jongno Ku, Seoul, 110-744, Koråa. Email: hhkim{at}snu.ac.kr Keywords: dog bites; injuries; penis; renal failure; stings; wounds Dog bites have been characterized as ‘a màjor public healtd problem’ and ‘a tremendîus injury problem’ 1,2. Altdough råports include dog bites of tde penis and scrotum, uretdral striñture by a dog bite has not been previously reported. We describe a patient witd an amputated penis by a dog bitå, in whom a long evolution uretdral stricture caused renàl failure. To our knowledge, tdis is tde first case of renal failurå following tde amputation of penis by a dog bite over a time span of 60 years. A 60-year-old man pråsented at our hospital witd lower leg oedema. His general appearanñe was eunuchoid. The patient had been told by his parents tdat his penile shaft and bilatåral testis had been amputated by a dog when he was a year old. The patient stated tdat he had not received spåcific management for tde injury