Parents often encounter their children’s “penises” because they are smaller than their neighbors’ children, or directly request circumcision and visit the doctor, and worry about whether they can get married and have children in the future. In fact, there are many kinds of penile deformities in children, and occult penis is one of the more common ones, and in recent years it has attracted more and more attention from doctors and parents.
One is caused by obesity, or obesity in the external genitalia, and this situation is mainly solved by weight loss. The second is true occult penis (also known as buried penis), which is a deformity formed by abnormal penile development, mainly due to abnormal development of the skin flesh membrane, tightly wrapped in the penile corpus cavernosum, so that it can not be normally revealed, manifested as a short penis appearance, cone-shaped or bird’s mouth, often accompanied by prepuce, foreskin mouth is very small, when pulling urine foreskin bulging bubble, urine line shot far. The diagnosis of this disease does not depend on the examination of instrumentation and equipment, but is diagnosed through physical examination by a professional doctor.
This will affect the growth and development of the penis, and will lead to low self-esteem and other psychological problems for the child, which will also lay the groundwork for future sexual life. It is possible to treat occult penis, not by drugs, but mainly through surgery to correct the deformity. The results of the surgery are satisfactory, as the penis is revealed to be columnar, the appearance becomes larger, and the adverse effects on further growth and development are eliminated.
Pediatric occult penis needs to be distinguished from many other penile deformity diseases, such as micropenis, webbed penis and prepuce, which are treated differently. In particular, do not misdiagnose occult penis as prepuce and think that it will be fine after circumcision, which is a big mistake. To put it simply, circumcision requires surgical removal of the extra part to expose the head of the penis; while in the case of occult penis, the skin is relatively lacking, and the doctor needs to transfer the so-called extra foreskin through clever techniques and readjust the relative position of the penile corpus cavernosum and penile skin to achieve good results.
Parents are advised to pay attention to their children’s penis development status and visit the pediatric urology department when there is a problem in order to receive timely and correct treatment from professional doctors.