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Challenges in managing proximal hypospadias: A 17-year single-center experience
Devesh Misra1, Ceri Elbourne1, Anastasia Vareli1
1Department of Paediatric Urology and Paediatric Surgery, The Royal London Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Background:
There are only a few publications in the medical literature reporting on complication rates in proximal hypospadias surgery, particularly with regard to long-term follow-up.
Methods:
Over a 17.5-year period, we operated 100 patients with penoscrotal, scrotal and perineal hypospadias. Sixty-four had a single-stage repair, including 15 who received a buccal mucosa inlay "Snodgraft" repair. Thirty-six had a two-stage Bracka repair of which 19 received buccal or lower lip grafts and 17 had preputial grafts. Overall, 34 patients received buccal grafts. The median follow-up was eight years (range 1-16 years). Three patients were operated for residual chordee years later.
Results:
Urethral fistulae occurred in a total of 26/100 (26.0%) cases, meatal stenosis in 16/100 (16.0%), wound breakdown in six (6.0%) and graft failure in one (1.0%). The fistula rate after the single-stage approach was 15/64 (23.4%), whereas it was 11/36 (30.6%) following two-stage repair (P = 0.4811).
Conclusions:
Proximal hypospadias remains a challenging condition to treat. It is possible to perform a single-stage repair in 64.0% of cases. This brings down the median number of operations to only two. Lower lip grafts were used in 34.0% but are now used in redo-surgeries only. Our fistula rate was 26.0% but has decreased significantly in recent years.
Level Of Evidence:
Level III.
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