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| Year : 2017 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 38-39 |
Male gender assignment of a child with aphallia and associated complex urological anomaly
Satish Kumar Kolar Venkatesh1, PR Babu2, TP Joseph2, Karthikeya K Varma3
1 Department of Paediatric Surgery, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton-3204, New Zealand
2 Department of Paediatric Surgery, Baby Memorial Hospital, Kozhikode, Kerala, India
3 Department of Paediatric Surgery, Aster MIMS, Kozhikode, Kerala, India
Correspondence Address:
Satish Kumar Kolar Venkatesh
Department of Paediatric Surgery, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton-3204
New Zealand
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-9261.194619
A 2-year-old male child presented to us with aphallia. At birth, he was passing urine from the anus and had undergone emergency colostomy and pyelostomy for urinary sepsis at 1 week of life. After a complete evaluation, the child underwent perineal urethrostomy and scrotal phalloplasty followed by buccal mucosal tube urethroplasty in the second stage, which was completed before the child started schooling.
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