A group of students from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) has come across a surprising discovery. The case of a 78 year old man with three penisesonly one was functional, while the other two had them attached to the skin of the scrotal sac, one of them did not have a urethra, which made it difficult to detect them when the man was still alive.
The university students discovered this condition when they were dissecting the man’s corpse, as explained in the study published by Journal of Medical Case Reports. This anomaly is scientifically called a triphalia deformity and it is rare, in fact it is the second case recorded in the world after the one known in Iraq in 2021 when the parents of a three-month-old baby took their son to the hospital when they saw that he had a swelling in the scrotum, The doctors decided that the only viable solution was to operate because, like this man’s case, the minor only had a functional penis.
The study explains that the 78-year-old man, with a medium-large build and 1.80 meters tall, could have suffered from functional deficits such as erectile dysfunction, fertility problems or urinary infections. The publication in the journal of medicine also details that these anomalies can be frequent despite the lack of diagnosis because in an initial examination it is not detected, and like the two cases that have been recorded, people who have triphalia deformity, generally their penises They are hidden within the skin and therefore go unnoticed.
From 1606 to 2023, there have been recorded only about a hundred cases worldwide of diphalia (malformation in which two penises are present). Although most external penile duplications are associated with other congenital anomalies, internal penile duplication often presents later in life as an incidental finding.
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