The anamnesis (medical history) represents an important component in the diagnosis of penile ulcer (ulcer of the penis).
Family history
- What is the general health of your relatives?
- Are there any diseases in your family that are common?
- Are there any hereditary diseases in your family?
Social history
- What is your profession?
- Are you exposed to harmful working substances in your profession?
- Have you been abroad recently? Did you have sexual contacts there?
- Have you had sexual contact with people with similar symptoms?
Current medical history/systemic history (somatic and psychological complaints).
- How long have the penile changes been present?
- Do you have these changes in other parts of your body?
- Was there a trigger?
- Do you have pain when you urinate?
- Do you have discharge from the urethra?
- Have you noticed swelling of the groin?
- Do you have a fever? If so, for how long and what is the temperature?
- What other symptoms have you noticed?
Vegetative anamnesis including nutritional anamnesis.
- Have you lost body weight unintentionally in the recent past? If so, how much weight in what time?
- Do you smoke? If yes, how many cigarettes, cigars or pipes per day?
- Do you drink alcohol more often? If yes, what drink(s) and how many glasses of it per day?
- Do you use drugs? If yes, which drugs and how often per day or per week?
Self history incl. medication history.
- Pre-existing conditions (urological diseases; sexually transmitted diseases).
- Operations (operations on the urogenital tract).
- Radiotherapy
- Vaccination status
- Allergies
- Travel history (due topossible venereal diseases/sexual diseases).
- Environmental anamnesis
- Medication history
