Recently, a 14-year-old boy followed his father to the clinic, the father complained that the child was “circumcised” and asked for “circumcision” treatment, and said he had looked up the relevant knowledge on the Internet and consulted a number of doctors. After examination, the author found that the patient’s penis was short, the foreskin was towering, the penis body was shrunken under the skin of the perineum, and the penis body could be exposed by finger pressure on the root of the penis, and the size was normal. Accordingly, the author diagnosed the patient as having “occult penis” instead of “circumcision” and performed occult penis correction, and now he has been discharged from the hospital with satisfactory appearance. Yang Qingtao, Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College
It is a common congenital abnormality and deformity caused by the dysplasia of the sarcolemma layer, resulting in the penis skin not being attached to the penis body and the penis body being hidden under the skin. When viewed from the outside, the penis is short and appears to be absent. The treatment method is to correct the concealed penis. If misdiagnosed as “circumcision”, the skin of the penis will become short and defective, and it will not be possible to perform corrective surgery, which will not only make the penis look bad, but also cause pain and discomfort when the penis is erect. Therefore, parents are advised to take their children to a specialist and not to treat occult penis as circumcision.