3. The necessity for long-term follow-up. One case of penis transplantation has been described in a man who lost his penis in an industrial machine accident. The donor was a young brain-dead male whose parents consented to the procedure. The Ethics review board of the hospital approved the procedure, which took 5 hours to perform. The penis survived 14 days and was viable, but the wife of the recipient then insisted that the penis be removed. At the time of amputation the corpora cavernosa and corpus spongiosum were viable. However, the skin suffered from superficial epidermal necrolysis that was diagnosed histologically. Venous congestion was evident on the penile skin, but no mention was made of anastomosis of the superficial dorsal vein of the penis.