Ventral penis curvature correction in children with hypospadias

OBJECTIVE Our study aims to improve hypospadias in children by successfully correcting ventral penile curvature. MATERIALS AND METHODS From 2014 to 2018, 424 patients with ventral penile curvature of 15-60 degrees were treated. All patients were divided into 3 groups depending on the form of hypospadias: Group I consists of 303 patients with subcoronal and midshaft hypospadias; Group II - 48 patients with midshaft hypospadias who earlier underwent urethroplasty; Group III - 73 patients with chordee without hypospadias. To correct ventral curvature in all cases - STAGE technique was applied. RESULTS No recurrence of penile curvature was noted in any of the three groups in the early and late post-operative follow-up of up to 1 year. CONCLUSIONS Ventral curvature penile correction is important for the future sexual life of the patient. Attention should be paid to this stage of the hypospadias repair. STAGE technique allows to correct ventral curvature of 15 - 60 degrees with minimal number of complications.