Pakistani baby is born with TWO working penises and no anus in extraordinarily rare phenomenon
Pakistani baby is born with TWO working penises and no anus in extraordinarily rare phenomenon
- EXCLUSIVE: The boy from Islamabad suffered the rare condition diphallia
- Surgeons described both penises as ‘normal-shaped’ but one was 1cm larger
- Only 100 cases of diphallia have even been recorded in medical literature
A Pakistani baby was born with two penises — and he could use both.
The boy also had no anus, according to doctors who published the extraordinarily rare case in a medical journal.
Surgeons described both penises as being ‘normal-shaped’.
One was 1cm bigger than the other, however.
He was also able to pass urine ‘from both orifices’, surgeons in Islamabad revealed.
Writing in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports , the team claimed that diphallia — as it is known medically — is a one-in-6million defect. Only 100 cases have even been recorded in medical literature, with the first dating back to 1609
Medics left both members intact — though they didn’t reveal why.
They did, however, create him an opening via a colonoscopy so that he could pass stools.
Writing in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports, the team claimed that diphallia — as it is known medically — is a one-in-6million defect.
Only 100 cases have even been recorded in medical literature, with the first dating back to 1609.
Doctors who treated the boy stated one per cent of sufferers also have a defect which affects their anus or rectum.
But they did not state if that meant this child was the world’s first ever case, as their numbers would suggest.
The boy, born after 36 weeks, was treated at the Children’s Hospital at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.
His parents, who took him to the hospital’s emergency department straight after he was born, had no family history of any birth defects.
Doctors examining him spotted that he had no anal opening and two ‘well-formed phalluses’, one of which was 1.5cm, while the other was 2.5cm.
Scans revealed that he had a single bladder attached to two urethras, which meant he passed urine from both penises.
Surgeons then performed to sigmoid colostomy — the most common type of colostomy — to divert one end of the colon through an opening in the lower left side of the abdomen.
The boy was monitored for two days following surgery. He was then discharged and a follow-up appointment arranged.
How diphallia occurs is unclear with no known single risk factor — but it’s thought to happen by chance when genitalia develops in the womb.
Patients can either have complete diphallia, when both penises are well developed, or partial diphallia, when one penis is smaller or deformed.
For all the latest health News Click Here
