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Case Reports
. 2010 Sep;20(3):353-7.

Diphallus: report on six cases and review of the literature

Ali-Reza Mirshemirani  1 , Naser Sadeghyian, Leila Mohajerzadeh, Hojat Molayee, Parand Ghaffari
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Case Reports

Diphallus: report on six cases and review of the literature

Ali-Reza Mirshemirani et al. Iran J Pediatr. 2010 Sep.

Abstract

Background: Diphallus is an extremely rare anomaly. Numerous associated genitourinary, gastrointestinal and other anomalies have been described with diphallus. These patients need several investigations, and finally surgical intervention.

Cases presentation: In this report we discuss six patients with diphallus which evaluated retrospectively. Five patients had complete diphallia, and one had bifid diphallus. Meatus was normal in 3, hypospadiac in 2, and epispadiac in one patient. The most common associated anomaly was bifid scrotum (5 cases), and other common anomalies consisted of bladder duplication (3 cases), imperforate anus (2 cases), and hypospadias (2 cases). Phalloplasty was performed for all but one.

Conclusion: All the patients with urethral duplication have to be evaluated carefully because of the high incidence of other systemic anomalies.

Keywords: Diphallus; Reconstructive surgical procedures; Scrotum; Urethral duplication.

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Diphallus and duplicated colon and bladder
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Diphallus and duplicated bladder in cystogram
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Diphallia after bladder exstrophy repair
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Diphallia in case 4
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Bifid diphallia
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Complete diphallia before (left) and after (right) operation
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