Highlights a rare but severe complication of coumarin anticoagulant therapy involving penile necrosis.
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Alerts clinicians to rare coumarin-associated penile necrosis; case report leaves incidence and causality open.
Coumarin-induced necrosis of the skin and subcutaneous tissue is an uncommon but well recognized complication of anticoagulant therapy. Although any area of skin may be involved necrosis of the penis is rare. We report a case of penile necrosis associated with coumarin therapy and review the literature.
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Barkley et al. (1989) studied this question.
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