Health officials in Brazil were preparing to surgically remove the small penis of a child who was born with two penises. Doctors at the Federal University of Sao Paulo changed their minds after receiving information from the boy’s mother for the operation of the boy, who was born with two penises fused together.
Doctors changed the course of the surgery after her mother told her that her child only urinated from the smaller penis. The surgeons decided to cut the other after the boy’s mother explained that the boy could only urinate from the smaller penis.
Examinations showed that his left penis was not functioning properly because the urethra was too narrow for urine to pass. The Brazilian boy’s surgery was successful.
WHAT IS DOUBLE PENIC CONDITION?
Diphallia, the double penis condition, is the medical condition in which a male baby is born with two penises. This is a very rare disorder and has been observed in only about 1000 cases since it was first recorded by Johannes Jacob Wecker in 1609. It occurs once in 5 million.