The boy (not pictured) will be able to have sex and start a family when he is older (Picture: Getty Images)
A boy who was born with three penises has had an operation to remove the extra appendages.
Doctors described the two-year-old’s extra penises as ‘soft, bony’ masses, and in doing the operation they also discovered he had no anus.
He is only able to pass urine though one of the penises, however following the operation doctors say the boy will grow up with a functioning penis and will be able to have sex and have children.
The boy, from India, is thought to suffer from diphallia – a condition which causes males to be born with more than one penis.
A boy who was born with three penises has had an operation to remove the extra appendages.
Doctors described the two-year-old’s extra penises as ‘soft, bony’ masses, and in doing the operation they also discovered he had no anus.
He is only able to pass urine though one of the penises, however following the operation doctors say the boy will grow up with a functioning penis and will be able to have sex and have children.
The boy, from India, is thought to suffer from diphallia – a condition which causes males to be born with more than one penis.
Doctors rectified the boy’s abnormality by removing one penis and then fusing two of the remaining appendages into one which can be used normally.
Dr Vishesh Dixit, a paediatric surgeon at Sion hospital, said: ‘The two functional penises were fused into one, by wrapping a mass of skin around them.’
While carrying out the operation in Uttar Pradesh’s Sion hospital, surgeons also performed a colostomy to allow him to pass excrement properly.
The boy’s uncle told DNA India: ‘We want our boy to lead a normal life, and are grateful to the doctors who have conducted a successful surgery.’
Diphallia is extremely rare, with only 100 cases being found in medical literature dating back as far as 1609.
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