title: Congenital urethrocutaneous fistula-our experience with nine cases.
abstract: Congenital urethrocutaneous fistula is a very rare anomaly with about 40 odd cases reported in literature till 2008 .We present here 9 such cases all of whom were uncircumcised at presentation.7 out of 9 cases had a fistula in the distal shaft and the rest 2 cases had a fistula in the mid-shaft of the penis with an associated chordee.Associated congenital anomaly was present in only one case which had an associated imperforate anus . When the fistula was present distally , we did a primary repair of the fistula which was reinforced by a Bayer's Flap. When the fistula was present in the mid shaft we did a Primary repair of the fistula & reinforced it by a Tunica Vaginalis Flap.
authors.affiliation: Departmentof General Surgery, Nilratan Sircar (NRS) Medical College, Calcutta, India.
authors.forename: Siddhartha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Biswas
authors.affiliation: Departmentof Paediatric Surgery, Medical College, Calcutta, India.
authors.forename: Dipak
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.affiliation: Departmentof Paediatric Surgery, Medical College, Calcutta, India.
authors.forename: Sukanta
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Das
keywords: Congenital; Fistula; Penis; Urethra; Urethrocutaneous