Kaneko Tomoyuki, Sakamoto Akihiko, Yoshida Takahiro, Yanagida Kazuki, Yoshimura Itsuki, Hagiwara Kanade, Kimura Masaki, Yamada Yukio, Nakagawa Tohru
Department of Urology Teikyo University School of Medicine Tokyo Japan.
IJU Case Rep. 2021 May 4;4(4):221-223. doi: 10.1002/iju5.12290. eCollection 2021 Jul.
We present the case of a patient with penetrating penile injury caused by splintering floorboards in a gymnasium.
A 24-year-old man was brought to the emergency department of our hospital because of an unintentional penetrating penile injury sustained while playing volleyball at a gymnasium. He dove into the wooden floor to fly-receive the ball. When sliding with his abdomen on the floor, a wooden splinter from the floorboard stuck from the base of his penis to near the glans penis. The splinter was gently removed without bleeding under local anesthesia.
Splintering floorboards in gymnasiums can cause serious trauma, including penile injuries. Health-care workers and users of public facilities, such as gymnasiums, should be aware of the accident risk associated with wooden floors.