Experts always urge people to get themselves thoroughly checked, even after accidents that may seem to have caused minor visible injuries. There have been many cases in the past wherein seemingly minor looking accidents have made people suffer for a lifetime or even turned fatal. Sometimes medics looking for injuries caused by the accident have diagnosed other scary health condition which otherwise would have been ignored by the patient. In a similar case, a 63-year-old fell over in the street and hurt his hips area, but that wasn't it. He planned to go to the hospital because his knee hurt, however, as he reached the hospital, he was shocked to find out that the problem was more than that. He discovered that his penis was slowly turning into bone while the medics were taking an X-ray scan of his pelvic area to check for broken bones. The doctors' find shocked the man after he came to know that bone cells were forming inside his penis. The doctors told the man that bone cells were building inside his penis. Also, do you know of Priapism That Caused Erection for Continuous Two-Days Causes in an Indian Man to Have His Penis Amputated After He Develops Gangrene?

However, leaving the doctors even more shocked, the man decided to ignore their advice and just left the hospital. He said that when he was in the emergency room, he had pain in his knee and some pain in his penis but no other symptoms suggesting an STI, as per India Times. However, the x-ray indicated that the man was suffering from penis ossification. Here's more about the health condition.

What is Penis Ossification?

Ossification is said to be a process during which the affected body part slowly starts turning into bone. Also known as osteogenesis, it is a process of laying down new bone material by cells called osteoblasts. Ossification in the Penile region is extremely rare with fewer than 40 histologically confirmed reported cases. Peyronie's disease(caused by scar tissue, called plaque forming inside the penis) is known to be the most common condition leading to penile ossification.

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In the past, NCBI has recorded a case of penis ossification of a 54-year old gentleman presented to the urology office with a 1-year history of a painless hard penile masses involving one-third the length. He was neither sexually active nor bothered by symptoms from this penile lesion. In this unnamed man's case, however, the ossification was not attributable to any prior trauma or medical condition and its cause, therefore, remains a mystery. Peyronie's

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