Diphallia
The diphallia (or diphallus ) is a malformation of the male urogenital system which is characterized by a duplication total or partial of the Pénis.
It is about a rare malformation which touches a person on five million births. There exist various more or less severe forms of this external urogenital anomaly. In the most common form of diphallia, one of the two bodies is rudimentary, but there exist extremely rare cases where the patient has two completely functional bodies.
This malformation can be associated with a duplication with the urinary tract (uretères, bladder, urethra) as well as duplications with the lower part of the digestive tract (iléon, appendix, colon) and can is integrated into malformations more complex such as the Hypospadias, the Cryptorchidie, the vesical Exstrophie, of the anomalies of the Spinal column and the Atrésie of the esophagus
The diphallia is known since the 17th century, the first description was made by it in 1609 Depuis at the time a hundred of observations were brought back in the medical literature.
The therapeutic assumption of responsibility varies according to the importance of malformation and the overall diagnosis, and goes from the simple ablation of the supernumerary penis to more complex rebuildings when the diphallia is associated with other malformations.
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