Prosthetic penile implants with tethered rear tip extenders and related methods

Abstract

Rear tip extenders having a tether attached to a collar for penile implants that can be mounted onto a respective cylinder forward of a fluid line (that communicates with a scrotal pump) to prevent full separation or detachment from the cylinder during a revision procedure can be fabricated by molding. The fabrication methods include: providing a mold with a mold cavity configured to define three attached members of defined shapes, including a rear tip extender, a collar and a tether attaching the rear tip extender and collar; and flowably introducing moldable material into the mold cavity to form the collar, rear tip extender and attached tether as a molded assembly.

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