title: Correction of hypospadias with a vertical preputial island flap: the Göteborg experience of 47 patients.
abstract: We report the follow-up of 47 patients with penile hypospadias who were treated by the Scuderi procedure between 1988 and 1998 at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden. Forty of the patients (85%) had had no previous operations, while the remaining seven had had meatotomy with chordectomy only, or an unsuccessful Dennis-Browne procedure. Hypospadias was distal in 35 (74%), mediopenile in 8 (17%), and proximal in 4 (9%); 21 (45%) showed signs of curvature. After a Scuderi urethroplasty one patient developed a fistula (2%) and 4 developed mild stenosis. The early success rate was therefore 42/47 (89%) and this later increased to 46/47 (98%) after non-surgical treatment of the stenoses. The results support the use of the Scuderi procedure for correction of primary and secondary penile hypospadias with a low complication rate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Rome La Sapienza, IInd Faculty, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Santanelli
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Blomqvist
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Paolini
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Frati
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007021:Hypospadias / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013997:Time Factors; D014521:Urethra / Q000601:surgery