Direction Brazil where a two-year-old child was operated on after being born with a rare congenital anomaly which affects one in 5 to 6 million births. This abnormality is called diphallia and causes the formation of two penises in the individual who has it..
Eventually the doctors decide to remove the bigger penis
It was in Sao Paulo that this story took place. The child is therefore came into the world with two penises, of different sizes but perfectly functional according to the child’s mother. The doctors therefore decided to remove the smallest penis. However, when the doctors carried out tests on the child, they noticed thathe could only urinate through the smallest organ. The other did not allow the passage of urine due to the urethra being too narrow.
As a result, the medical team changed their mind and made the decision to remove the largest penis thus favoring functionality over size. After surgery, doctors managed to completely remove the left penis and the two-year-old boy now has a single penis as if he had never been affected by this anomaly at birth.
A strange anomaly and an unprecedented case in the world
Specialists explain that it was in 1609 that the first case of diphallia was spotted and since then, only 100 cases have been identified. The scientists do not yet know how this anomaly develops. There are several types of diphallia: complete when both penises are perfectly developed or partial when one of the two limbs is deformed.
Case even rarer because unique to date: in 2021, Iraqi doctors faced a case of triphally. A baby is born with three penises. His parents waited until he was 7 years old to have him operated on and remove his two non-functional penises.
