A Baby Was Born Without A Penis In Turkey Doctors Are Surprised!

A Baby Was Born Without A Penis In Turkey Doctors Are Surprised!

The case of a baby who was born without one of his private parts has the doctors of a hospital in Turkey surprised

A male baby was born without his penis , an extremely rare medical condition that, according to specialists, affects one in 3 million children born. The baby was born in Turkey with a medical condition known as penile agenesis, and it left doctors wowed .

Doctors at Erbakan University Hospital in the Turkish city of Konya confirmed that the newborn’s testicles are present as normal as in all other boys, and there were no abnormalities other than having the penis present (a condition known as penile agenesis) . The doctors also said that a good option to correct the problem that the boy has could be an area reconstruction surgery to shape the device.

According to scientists, in the history of humanity only 80 cases of this rare condition have been reported . Scientists and the same group of specialists who take care of the baby began to investigate the rare body malformation that the little one presented a day after he was born.

A baby was born without a penis in Turkey. Doctors are surprised. Photo: Pexels

In medical tests on the little boy, specialists found an extremely rare connection between the baby’s bladder and his rectum, a physical condition better known as a vesicorectal fistula . According to medical reports, this is the first case in the hospital in which a single infant was born with penile agenesis, and vesicorectal fistula.

As the fetus develops in the womb, its early cloaca divides into the rectum and the bladder. The vesicorectal fistula is the place where the cloaca could not divide correctly , the doctors reported.

The baby suffers from a rare disease known as "penile agenesis." Photo: Pixabay

The health specialists who are in charge of the care of the newborn think that the problems they present, both the absence of his penis and the correction of the bladder and rectum could be fixed with a couple of simple surgeries .

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