Rare man with two penises ready for the chop

Rare man with two penises ready for the chop

August 19 2006 at 05:02PM

An Indian man born with two penises wants to get one of them removed so that he can marry, a report said on Saturday.

The 24-year-old businessman checked himself into a city hospital for the operation after having lived all his life with the rare condition medically known as penile duplication or diphallus, the Times of India said.

"It is an extremely rare condition. More so because two fully functional penises is unheard of even in medical literature," the newspaper quoted a doctor as saying.

"In the more common form of diphallus, one organ is rudimentary."

The doctor said the operation would be extremely complicated as surgeons would have to ensure that the retained organ was fully functional.

The report did not name the patient or hospital to protect the man's identity.

The developmental abnormality is found in one in 5,5 million men and only around 100 such cases have been reported since the first one in 1609, the newspaper said.