The Surgery That Changes Penile Anatomy #shorts (opens in new tab)

I've cared for patients who had a condition called hypospadias, where the urethral opening forms in the wrong location during development\. Sometimes it's on the shaft, sometimes near the scrotum instead of at the tip\. Surgery is needed to reconstruct the urethra in the correct position\. Here's what many people don't realize: when there isn't enough penile skin to complete the repair, we sometimes use scrotal skin as a graft\. The texture difference is real because scrotal skin has a differ...