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Diphallus: Report on Six Cases and Review of the Literature
Background: Diphallus is an extremely rare anomaly. Numerous
associated genitourinary, gastrointestinal and other anomalies have
been described with diphallus. These patients need several
investigations, and finally surgical intervention. Cases Presentation:
In this report we discuss six patients with diphallus which evaluated
retrospectively. Five patients had complete diphallia, and one had
bifid diphallus. Meatus was normal in 3, hypospadiac in 2, and
epispadiac in one patient. The most common associated anomaly was bifid
scrotum (5 cases), and other common anomalies consisted of bladder
duplication (3 cases), imperforate anus (2 cases), and hypospadias (2
cases). Phalloplasty was performed for all but one. Conclusion: All
the patients with urethral duplication have to be evaluated carefully
because of the high incidence of other systemic anomalies