Korean J Urol.  1984 Jun;25(3):344-348.

Clinical Significance of Nocturnal Penile Tumescence Monitoring with Stamps

• Kim CI
• Choi HK

Abstract

This study was conducted in order to investigate the clinical significance of nocturnal penile tumescence recording with stamps. The results were as follows; 1. In the study of 33 normal potent men, 96 stamp tests were undertaken. Among them, stamp breakage occurred in 62 trials (64.6%) and in remaining 34 trials (35.4%) stamp breakage failed to occur. 2. In 30 (90.0%) of the 33 normal potent cases, showed one or more incidence of stamp breakage and was considered as a positive response and in the remaining 3 cases (9.1%) showed no stamp breakage at all in a three consecutive trials. 3. In 8 patients complaining impotence after urethral injury, showed no breakage of stamp at all in a consecutive 42 trials (100% negative response).

Keyword

nocturnal penile tumescence monitoring

MeSH Terms

Erectile Dysfunction
Humans
Incidence
Male
Penile Erection*