title: Correcting congenital concealed penis: new pediatric surgical technique.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Correction of the congenital concealed penis is a difficult surgical challenge. Many techniques have been described for its treatment that differ according to the incision lines and covering techniques, but the results have generally been disappointing. We report a novel surgical technique for unfurling the inner prepuce and outer penile skin and thus obtaining sufficient penile skin coverage.
  
  
  METHODS
  Surgical techniques for correcting the concealed penis are aimed at freeing the penis from any tethering or webbing, providing adequate penile skin coverage and fixing the proximal penile skin to the underlying fascia to prevent the body of the penis from retracting and detaching from its overlying skin. The unfurling method we describe here consists of dividing the outer penile skin to the penile base bilaterally, with ventral and dorsal incisions of the inner prepuce in the midline, perpendicular to the incision of the outer skin.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This method is simple and provides a good blood supply to the flap. It appears to show good subjective and objective results, and no serious complications have developed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Inha University School of Medicine, Incheon, Korea. lt11@inha.ac.kr
authors.forename: Tack
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Hong-Jin
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Suh
authors.forename: Jeong-Uk
authors.initials: JU
authors.lastname: Han
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010413:Penis / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*; D013520:Urologic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods