Recently I saw a child who had a failed operation for hypospadias that was done elsewhere. The child was in severe pain and had great difficulty in passing urine because the entire urethra (urine...
Two weeks ago, a family saw me with their child. The child had undergone surgery for repair of distal Hypospadias Elsewhere. The surgery was done over 1 year ago, but the parents had been...
Recently, we published a very important paper in the prestigious international journal “Pediatric Surgery International”. In that paper, through a meta-analysis of previously published data, we assessed the various techniques of correction of chordee...
‘Doctor, we took our child for hypospadias surgery to a big hospital, but unfortunately the operation has failed; Where did we make a mistake? How did we fail to identify the best surgeon for our...
A 24-year old software engineer came to me last year with four failed hypospadias operations during his childhood. He was still passing urine from an opening in his scrotum, so he had to always...
Doctor, we thought Hypospadias surgery is a minor operation. Only after my son’s operation failed 2 times, I realised that it is a major and difficult operation. Last week I had a call from...
Many children are born with hypospadias. It is estimated that in India, about 75000 children with hypospadias are born each year. Except for the very mild types of hypospadias (Glanular type without Chordee), surgical...
Last week in the outpatient clinic I saw a 11-year old child with previously operated hypospadias. The child had been operated on many years ago at another hospital. The parents were not satisfied with...
About 2 months ago, I operated on a 1-year old boy with complete Epispadias. The child was referred to me by a pediatric surgeon from another city for expert surgical advice. The child had...
‘What are the types of hypospadias? What is the basis on which hypospadias is classified as various types? Is there any difference between surgery for mild, moderate and severe cases of hypospadias? How is...
