THE MEDİCO-LEGAL
EVALUATION OF ERECTILE DISFONCTION
Birgen N, Yavuz
MS, Dirol F.
Clinical
Forensic Medicine (Turkish), 2001; 1 (1): 55-9.
ABSTRACT
Erectile dysfunction is defined as consistent inability to obtain and/or maintain
a penile erection sufficient for satisfactory sexual relations. Erectile dysfunction is researched by criminal and civil courts
for different reasons.
Urology, neurology and psychiatry clinics are appointed by courts and attorneys
as witness in order to determine the presence or absence of erectile dysfunction in defendants in sexual crime cases and divorce
suits. In case of rejection of these reports, defendants are sent to the Council of Forensic Medicine. The 3rd Specialization
Board of the Council of Forensic Medicine is the only official witness in Turkey for such cases.
The purpose of this study was to classify the cases, that were sent to the 3rd
Specialization Board of the Council of Forensic Medicine in order to determine the presence or absence of erectile dysfunction,
according to their type of courts, age, drug abuse, the cities that they were sent from, and the reports that were prepared
before.
126 cases were sent to the 3rd S.B. between 1997-1999 from attorneys and courts.
Most of them (60,3 %) were sent by criminal courts for major cases, 27.0% from civil courts and 12.7% from other authorities.
68.3 % of the cases were sexual offences. In 91 (72.2 %) cases the results were normal; in 23 (18.2 %) cases erectile dysfunction
was detected. The ages of the cases differed from 8 to 72 and most of them were sent from Istanbul.
The results were compared to other studies and to the reports obtained from
other hospitals in order to make some suggestions made to get better results.
Key words: Erectile dysfunction, forensic medicine.
