[Total denudation of the penis in circumcision. Description of a plastic technique for repair of the penis]

Abstract

The difficulty of knowing the percentage of newborns and infants who have been circumcised in our medium, and the presence in the Surgical Pediatric Ward of our hospital, during the last five years, of patients with total denudation of the penis--secondary to a circumcision with plastibel, drove us to research and share our experience in the use of a free skin graft for its correction, the postoperative care needed and the follow-up of those patients. Circumcision is a surgical procedure which is not totally innocuous and which should be performed by surgically experienced personnel to obtain good results. It is recommended that general practitioners and pediatricians be informed that the denudation of the penis is an infrequent but severe complication, and how to avoid its occurrence. Complications of plastibel circumcision in pediatrics.