Surgical treatment of webbed penis in children

Abstract

The webbed penis (WP) belongs to a rare and little-known defect of the external genitalia. The term denotes the penis of normal for age size hidden in the adjacent scrotal and pubic tissues. The authors describe clinical symptoms of the disease, consider anatomomorphological features underlying development of the WP, propose the WP classification including three basic clinical forms of this malformation, outline principles of diagnosis and differential diagnosis with the conditions associated with a small-size penis, analyze surgical treatment of 30 boys with WP, surgical techniques in each form of the disease with adjustment for anatomic features, provide follow-up outcomes in the treated patients.