Hard bumps inside the penis skin

The penis is a very important sexual organ for men. If there is something wrong with this part, it will definitely make people very worried. In daily life, many men find hard lumps inside the penis skin. This phenomenon may be caused by penile induration. We can learn more about this disease and make a judgment based on our own experience. Let's take a look at penile induration.

Penile induration refers to the fibrotic changes of the tunica albuginea of ​​the corpus cavernosum of the penis, which causes single or multiple plaques or nodules to appear on the back or outside of the penis. Therefore, it is also called Peyronie's disease. This disease is more common in adults, because the plaques can cause erectile pain and penile curvature deformity, causing difficulties in sexual life. However, this disease develops slowly and has no tendency to become malignant.

Clinical manifestations

The severity of Peyronie's disease can be mild, moderate or severe, and symptoms can develop gradually or overnight. The main clinical symptoms include the following:

1. Local induration

Painless hard plaques appear on the penis. The nodules are mostly located on the back of the penis. Small ones are the size of rice grains, while large ones can spread to the entire back of the penis. They are round, cord-like or plaque-like, hard in texture, fixed and immobile, and the skin and subcutaneous tissue are usually not affected.

2. Penile curvature

Most patients only experience penile curvature during erection. A lump on the upper side of the penis will cause the penis to bend upward, while a lump on the lower side of the penis will cause the penis to bend downward. The curvature is usually 30°-120°.

3. Penis shortening and deformation

Some patients may have lumps on both the upper and lower sides of the penis, shortening and deforming the penis.

4. Erection pain

The penis feels uncomfortable or painful when it is erect. There is usually no pain when it is not erect, and some people only feel pain during sexual intercourse.

5. Erectile dysfunction

6. Difficulty in sexual intercourse

Due to pain and curvature during erection, some patients have erectile dysfunction and difficulty or failure in sexual intercourse due to huge plaques affecting the blood supply to the corpus cavernosum.