The good news is that pediatric surgery can be performed very safely. It’s a big decision to go forward with surgery for your child. Another consideration is that children younger than 18 months tolerate corrective surgery very well and usually recover quickly. The recommendation to wait at least 6 months comes from the knowledge that pediatric anesthesia is safer when the child is no longer a newborn. These techniques require pediatric general anesthesia and are performed as a brief day surgery when the child is between 6 and 18 months old. When is corrective surgery performed?Ĭorrective surgery can be combined with circumcision and is usually performed through the circumcision line itself.
Surgery may be needed in these cases to improve penile function.ĭeferring newborn circumcision in all of these cases is best to avoid complications and optimize later corrective surgery. There also are conditions where the penile shaft itself may be curved or twisted, or where the urine opening is positioned below the head of the penis on the penile shaft.
#Newborn scrotum colol skin
This increases the risk of removing too much skin during newborn circumcision and the chance of complications. In these situations, the penis itself is normal, but the skin and scrotum are attached incorrectly.
This may be related to buried penis anatomy, or scrotal tethering. The most common structural reason to avoid newborn circumcision is a lack of adequate skin length between the scrotum and the head of the penis. As a pediatric urologist, I often help these families sort out their options. In these cases, parents often consult with a pediatric urologist, a surgeon who has specialized training to perform corrective surgery on infants and older children with genital problems.
Sometimes children are born with a genital anomaly that should be addressed before proceeding with circumcision.
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