[Diagnosis of hypospadias with regard to operative correction]

For a successful operative correction of hypospadia it is absolutely necessary to judge its degree of severity accurately. The decisive factor for this is only the extent of the chorda and not the position of the ectopic urethral orifice. The latter almost always simulates a low degree of severity. This is very clearly to be seen on erection of the penis, by which the degree of hypospadia is visibly exacerbated, as is shown with reference to the last 79 cases operated on by the author.