Surgeons from the Federal University of Sao Paulo successfully performed an operation to remove a second, additional penis on a two-year-old boy. Although the doctors initially planned to remove the smaller organ, they eventually decided that the boy would be deprived of the larger penis as it was not working properly. The child suffered from a rare condition that statistically affects one in five to six million boys.
- A boy from Brazil who had one of his two penises amputated suffered from a rare condition – difalia
- Difalia was first recorded by a Swiss physician in 1609. Since then, only 100 similar cases have been recorded
- A difhal penis amputation was also carried out in early April 2022 in Uzbekistan on a seven-year-old patient. According to medical reports, a child with three penises was to be born in Iraq, which is a phenomenon on a global scale.
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Two years ago in Brazil, a boy with two penises was born, but doctors for undisclosed reasons decided to remove one of the members only now, as reported by the Daily Mail. Surgeons at the Federal University of Sao Paulo initially planned to remove a smaller organ, but found that the larger (left) organ was not working properly — his urethra was too narrow for urine to pass through without problems.
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The extra penis of a two-year-old has been completely amputated. Marcela Leal da Cruz, who was in charge of the operation, explained that the defect with which the baby was born was called difalia. It was first described in a report by a Swiss physician, Johannes Jacob Wecker, in 1609, who in his work dealt with a corpse belonging to a person suffering from this rare disease. Over the years, there have been only 100 such cases in history since the Swiss’s unusual discovery.
Difallia is a rare condition. Recently, two operations have been correcting it
Experts estimate that difalia affects one in five to six million boys. It is not known how it arises, but it is thought to happen randomly as the fetal genitals develop in the womb. According to the daily reports from the beginning of April, a boy in Uzbekistan, who had been affected by difalia, was recently operated on. Both of his penises were fully functional — the child, thanks to two developed and functioning urethra that ran from the bladder, could urinate from two penises.
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A boy from Uzbekistan underwent surgery in the country’s capital, Tashkent, at the age of seven. It is not known why doctors delayed the operation for so long, especially since the baby underwent an operation to create an anus shortly after birth (he was born without it).
As a result of the surgery, the left penis and urethra were removed, directing the entire stream of urine only to the right urethra in the left penis. The boy’s penises were connected by a common shaft.
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In turn, a boy with three penises was to be born in Iraq, as reported by local medics. Trifalia, which was supposed to affect an Iraqi child, has not been previously recorded in the medical literature.
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