Vincenzo Bagnara, Salvatore Arena, Marco Castagnetti, Ciro Esposito, Donatella Di Fabrizio, Carmelo Romeo, Bruno Giammusso
The aim was to retrospectively evaluate our experience in a large series of patients affected by isolated congenital ventral penile curvature, surgically treated using a previously described modified incisional corporoplasty.
V. Bagnara, B. Giammusso, M. Castagnetti, C. Esposito, A. Bianchi
Introduction
To determine the outcome of distal hypospadias repairs performed using bipolar diathermy (BD) for all the dissection. Methods Retrospective review of 310 patients undergoing distal hypospadias (264 subcoronal/distal penile and 46 coronal/glanular) over a 11-year period. Median age at surgery was 2.0 years (range 9 monthse15 years). Caudal anesthesia was performed in all patients. All children underwent an in situ tubularization of the urethral plate, which was combined with midline incision of the plate in 30 (10%). Preputial reconstruction was performed in 303 (98%) patients. BD forceps was used for coagulation and for all the dissection including skin incision, elevation of glans wings, separation of the corpus spongiosum from the corpora cavernosa, and urethral plate incision, when deemed appropriate. The authors assessed surgical complications and cosmetic results. The latter using the hypospadias objective score (HOSE), with a score 14 considered as acceptable.
