The False Diagnosis of Venous Leak: Prevalence and Predictors

Penile DUS has a propensity to inaccurately assign a diagnosis of venous leak. Great care should be taken when performing DUS especially in younger men without a significant vascular risk factor history, and the failure to obtain a good erection should make the clinician cautious in assigning a diagnosis of venous leak. Furthermore, there still exists a role for cavernosometry, which appears to have a greater accuracy at diagnosing venous leak. Teloken PE, Park K, Parker M, Guhring P, Narus J, and Mulhall JP. The false diagnosis of venous leak: Prevalence and predictors. J Sex Med 2011;8:2344-2349.