Close
A baby boy in Duhok City, Iraq has to undergo surgery to remove his two extra male genitalia. Doctors claimed that this is the first recorded case of triphallia in humans.
Only one of these genitals is functional so the other two, one attached to the end of his penis and the other is at the bottom of his scrotum, will have to be surgically removed.
The unnamed boy was three months old when the study, entitled Triphallia (triple penis), the first reported case in human was first published in 2020 in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports.
Doctors said that one out of five to six million boys is born with diphallia, two penises, with around 100 cases were recorded worldwide over the past 400 years since it was first medically identified. But the Iraqi baby boy is the first case of triphallia in humans recorded.
Baby Born With Three Penises Makes Medical History; Triphallia Case From Iraq Stuns Doctors
By
Vaccine for All Adult Americans by May 1
In its first, a baby born in Iraq made medical history after he was born with three penises and surprised doctors with two extra growth of private parts.
The baby boy normally has a visible penis just like the others but has sprouts that are situated under the sack which can be observed by medical professionals only.
Pixabay
The 3-month-old baby boy, originally a Kurd from Duhok, was brought to the hospital by his parents due to swelling in his scrotum. After observation, doctors were puzzled to see the boy had extra growths as phallic deformity one 2-centimeter (0.8-inch) sprouting penis near the root of his primary penis and another 1-centimeter-long situated under his testicles.
The case has surprised the doctors who said that it is a rare case because the baby was not exposed to any drugs in the womb and his family too does not have a history of genetic anomaly.
The case of the baby left the doctors surprised as he had no exposure to drugs while his mother was pregnant with him, nor anyone in the family had any genetic aberrations. Since the childâs extra private parts did not include urethras â the tube that urine passes through â they were removed by the doctors. Regarding the surgical process, the doctors stated: âSurgery was performed under general anesthesia, during surgery the hydrocele sac (the patent processus vaginalis) was ligated at the inguinal canal. The two supernumerary penises were extending up to perineal region and were attached to original penis, both had corpora cavernosum and spongiosum with no urethra inside. Both supernumerary penises were excised and both corpora were sutured with a fine slowly absorbable suture material, the skin was then sutured with fine interrupted suture material. The operation was performed by a consultant urologist who is expert in the field of uro-surgery and penile reconst