Children's penises are short and can be divided into true and false. There are three kinds of true penis short: true and false hermaphroditism, penile absence and true penis short. Prostitutes are short and concealed penises are the most common.
Concealed penis is a common congenital dysplasia and deformity disease, which is different from prepuce or phimosis in children. As we all know, after a baby boy is born, the penis foreskin is always wrapped around the penis head. By the age of 3-4, most children's foreskin can be turned up by themselves and the penis head is exposed. If the foreskin can't turn up or the foreskin mouth is small at this time, it is called foreskin is too long or phimosis. In hermits, the penis is hidden in the body, and only a small, pointed foreskin protrudes outward. If you squeeze the penis skin inward with your hand, the penis body will be exposed, but once the hand is slightly released, the penis body will retract again. Therefore, some people call it burying penis. Although the shape of concealed penis looks like the foreskin is too long, these are two completely different diseases. This is because the skin of the concealed penis is not too long, but too short, and its penis body is not very small but normal. There are three reasons. First, the penis skin is underdeveloped and too short. Second, the foreskin cavity is too small; Third, the penis skin is not wrapped around the corpus cavernosum, which leads to the retraction of the corpus cavernosum into the body without support. If the concealed penis is not operated, it will be hidden and cannot be extended, and the development of the penis body will be limited. Therefore, the concealed penis must be corrected within a certain age (3-5 years old).
The treatment of concealed penis is completely different from the treatment of excessive prepuce, which requires excision of excessive prepuce (circumcision). However, the treatment of concealed penis requires surgery to enlarge the prepuce opening, then extend the skin of penis, and to "pull out" the corpus cavernosum from the stomach and fix it, so as to restore the normal physiological anatomy of penis, thus achieving the purpose of being conducive to penis development. However, if the concealed penis is misdiagnosed as too long prepuce and circumcised, it will lead to the deficiency of penis skin. Once the corpus cavernosum after operation loses the adhesion and protection of skin, the development of penis body will be more and more inhibited.
Therefore, parents must take a child with short penis to a hospital with pediatric surgery for diagnosis and treatment, so as to choose the correct surgical method and avoid misdiagnosis and mistreatment.