A comparative study of two techniques of urethroplasty in repair of distal penile hypospadias.

Hypospadias is a common congenital anomaly of the penis in which the urethra opens proximal to its normal position at the tip of the glans and the overall incidence of hypospadias is between 0.3% and 0.6%. Distal penile hypospadias is the commonest amongst all hypospadias cases. One stage urethroplasty was performed among 64 cases using Mathieu-Mullen's procedure or Snodgrass Belman procedure. Of these 64 cases, in 29 cases the Mathieu-Mullen's procedure was followed and in the rest 35 cases of distal penile hypospadias the Snodgrass Belman procedure was employed. These two procedures were retrospectively compared in terms of operating time, operative blood loss, cosmetic result, postoperative fistula rate, duration of operation.