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The first penile implants were performed following World War II for plastic surgical reconstruction of the penis in soldiers who had sustained destructive injuries to the genitalia, usually from land mines and burns. Autologous cartilage and bone grafts were fashioned for internal penile splinting, but long-term results were poor, partly because of reabsorption of the material over time (1). These techniques were later expanded to the treatment of impotence, and the first use of synthetic materials (acrylic rods) was described by Goodwin and Scott in 1952 (2).
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Brandell, R.A., Thrasher, J.B. (2002). Semirigid, Malleable, and Mechanical Penile Prostheses. In: Carson, C.C. (eds) Urologic Prostheses. Current Clinical Urology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-096-4_10
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