In the emergency room you examine a young boy whose was injured while trying to climb a fence. He says he hit his "bottom" hard while straddling the horizontal bar at the top of the fence
Your examination reveals that his penis and scrotum are edematous as is the lower part of his anterior abdominal wall. Only the most superior aspects of his thighs are also edematous. You suspect the boy:
A) ruptured his corpus cavernosa and the swelling is due to blood.
B) bruised his penis and scrotum and the swelling is due to lymph.
C) ruptured his spongy urethra and the swelling is due to urine.
D) ruptured his internal pudendal vein and the swelling is due to blood.
E) ruptured his deep perineal pouch and the swelling is due to an inflammatory reaction resulting from the release of fluid from the bulbourethral glands.
Ans: C
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