Doctors in Calcutta Report Pediatric Penis Transplant

In what is claimed to be a medical first, a group of doctors in Calcutta, India, report they transplanted a penis from a child born with two to another born without one.

Dr. Ashok Ray, a pediatric surgeon who led the transplant team, said the penis was taken from a one-year-old baby that had been born with two external male genitals with normal growth and scrota but no rectum.

The penis was then transplanted, in a three-hour operation, to a seven-month-old child at the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College Hospital in Calcutta. The baby without a penis had been urinating through his rectum, doctors said.

Other Sources: The Telegraph