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Penile Length Assessment of Children Treated for Primary Buried Penis: Can Satisfying Penile Growth Always Be Achieved?
- Source :
- Children; Jul2023, Vol. 10 Issue 7, p1254, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Primary buried (BP) penis is describes as a small penis caused by a penile ligaments anomaly; it is unclear if a primary BP could reach a normal length. We selected 49 patients treated at our institution between 2015 and 2020 in order to post-operatively evaluate the SPL after one year. SPL was evaluated according to the PH Tanner staging system for pre-pubertal patients according to age-normalized values. A micropenis was detected if the SPL was below 2.5 SD. A normal SPL was found in thirty-two patients, eighteen were in PH Stage 1, four were in PH Stage 2, six were in PH Stage 3, and four were in PH Stage 5. Seventeen patients showed a reduced SPL; in seven of these (four in PH Stage 4 and three in PH Stage 5), their SPL was <2.5 ST. The difference in micropenis prevalence between the pre-pubertal and post-pubertal patients was significant (p = 0.038). A primary BP grows normally during the pre-pubertal period, where patients frequently showed a normal SPL, but it seems to be unable to reach a normal length in the higher PH stages, where the SPL is used to detect a micropenis. We suggest that a primary BP should be considered not as a simple defect of the penile ligaments and surrounding tissues, but as an incomplete manifestation of a micropenis due to a growth slowdown of the organ in late puberty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PENIS abnormalities
PENIS surgery
PENIS
ACADEMIC medical centers
ANTHROPOMETRY
RETROSPECTIVE studies
PUBERTY
SURGERY
PATIENTS
PLASTIC surgery
FISHER exact test
ADOLESCENCE
TREATMENT effectiveness
GENITOURINARY organ abnormalities
POSTOPERATIVE period
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
DATA analysis software
CHILDREN
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22279067
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Children
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 168589057
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/children10071254