RECENT ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING /MANAGEMENT OF HYPOSPADIAS By Warren Snodgrass MD and Nicol Corbin Bush MD, MCS Hypospadias is the second most common birth difference, where the urinary opening is below the normal location at the tip of the penis. Usually the foreskin is only partially formed, and sometimes there is downward bending (“chordee”). Older… Read More »
This article by Dr. Bush and Dr. Snodgrass reviews the STAG surgical techniques for the correction of “severe” hypospadias. Severe hypospadias is defined as hypospadias associated with more than 30 degrees of ventral (forward) curvature. This type of hypospadias is rare, happening in about 500 boys in the US each year. Complication rates after proximal hypospadias… Read More »
TIP HYPOSPADIAS REPAIR: A PEDIATRIC INDICATOR OPERATION By Warren Snodgrass MD and Nicol Corbin Bush MD, MCS The TIP operation created by Dr Warren Snodgrass is the most common hypospadias repair used by surgeons around the world. 20 years after he published the first article, Dr Snodgrass and Dr Bush wrote this update to describe… Read More »
Announcing free educational webinars to help answer your questions about hypospadias. March 10: Distal Hypospadias March 31: Proximal Hypospadias April 7: Complications after Hypospadias Repair April 21: Hypospadias Repair for Teens and Adults email webinar@parcurology.com to RSVP
TUBULARIZED INCISED PLATE PROXIMAL HYPOSPADIAS REPAIR: CONTINUED EVOLUTION AND EXTENDED APPLICATIONS By Warren Snodgrass MD and Nicol Corbin Bush MD, MCS TIP hypospadias repair is the most common surgery done for distal hypospadias around the world. Given the success of that operation, naturally the next question was how good would TIP be for proximal hypospadias… Read More »
