[Sonography of the penis shaft].

The development of highly frequent transducers has created new diagnostic possibilities for the sonography in the area of the body of the penis. We controlled the valency of this technique on our patients. While the usual clinical and radiological methods still predominate in the diagnostics of traumas of the penis and diseases of the cavernous bodies, the ultrasound gives new possibilities of the exact classification in the carcinoma of the penis and the induratio penis plastica. Thus the basis for the development of alternative therapeutic methods is given.