HEA's 2010 Conference
This year's conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas, on Columbus Day weekend (Saturday-Monday, October 9-11, 2010). There'll be lots of support, new people to meet, old friends to visit with, stories, sharing, laughter and a few tears, plus real Texas barbeque! The signup form will be online soon.

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Medical Journal Articles

The articles listed below are only a few of the thousands of articles written about hypospadias and epispadias. Click on the link icon (link icon) to open the article.

Links open the article abstract or the full article (if available). Information about other useful articles can be found on the Message Board.

If you want to search further, the search engine at the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed
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Articles marked with an asterisk (*) are highly recommended. Articles are arranged alphabetically within each topic.

Overview

link image Cloacal exstrophy (Children's Hospital Boston, no date)

link image  * Epispadias (UrologyHealth.org, 2002)

link image  * Exstrophy and epispadias (eMedicine, 2009)

link image  Exstrophy of the bladder and epispadias (Children's Hospital Boston, no date)

link image  * Genital anomalies (eMedicine, 2008)

link image  * Hypospadias (CDC, 2009)

link image  * [Hypospadias in females] (Urologiia, 2007) - Suggests that female hypospadias is much more common than previously believed.

link image * Hypospadias in the neonate (Medscape Today, 2004)

link image  Urological diseases in America: Interim report (CDC, 2004)

Incidence of hypospadias/epispadias

link image  The estimated prevalence of hypospadias in Hokkaido, Japan (Journal of Epidemiology, 2004) 

link image  International trends in rates of hypospadias and cryptorchidism (International Health Perspectives, 1999)

link image  Prevalence of hypospadias and other genital anomalies among singleton births, 1988-1997, in Scotland (Archives of Diseases in Childhood, Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 2004)

Surgical issues

link image  Classification of prepuce in hypospadias according to morphological abnormalities and their impact on hypospadias repair (Journal of Urology, 2004)

link image  Complete genitourinary reconstruction in female epispadias (Journal of Urology, 1993)

link image  Complete repair of bladder exstrophy in boys: Can hypospadias be avoided? (UroToday, 2005)

link image  * Challenging cases in hypospadias surgery require expertise (UroSource, 2008)

link image  Efficacy of polydimethylsiloxane injection to the bladder neck and leaking diverting stoma for urinary continence (Journal of Urology, 2004)

link image * Failed hypospadias repair presenting in adults (UroToday, 2006)

link image  Home-dilatation of the urethral meatus in boys (BJU International, 2004)

link image  Hypospadias surgery: A 10-year review (Pediatric Surgery International, 2004)

link image  Is prophylactic antimicrobial treatment necessary after hypospadias repair? (Journal of Urology, 2004)

link image  * The 'learning curve' In hypospadias surgery (UroToday, 2006)

link image  Mutually gratifying heterosexual relationship with micropenis of husband (Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 1988)

link image  Outcomes of delayed hypospadias repair: Implications for decision making (Fistula Research Today, 2007)

link image  Partial penile disassembly for isolated epispadias repair - Abstract (UroToday, 2008)

link image  ** The “perfect” hypospadias repair: Are we there yet? (Canadian Urological Association Journal, 2008)

link image  * Urogenital reconstruction, penile epispadias (eMedicine, 2008)

Psychosocial/sexual adjustment

link image  Adaptation of adults to uncorrected hypospadias - Abstract (UroToday, 2008)

link image  Body image and sexuality in adolescents after hypospadias surgery (Journal of Pediatric Urology, 2009)

link image  Effect of hypospadias on sexual function and reproduction (Indian Journal of Urology, 2008)

link image  Health-related quality of life and psychological adjustment of children and adolescents with hypospadias (Journal of Pediatrics, 2008)

link image  Hypospadias: Psychosocial, sexual, and reproductive consequences in adult life (Journal of Andrology, 2005)

link image  Psychosexual adjustment of children and adolescents after different types of hypospadias surgery: a norm-related study (Journal of Urology, 1995)

link image  Psychosexual and psychosocial development of patients with hypospadias (Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde, 1997)

link image  Psychosocial adaptation of middle childhood boys with hypospadias after genital surgery (Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2001)

link image  Sexual and social life of men operated in childhood for hypospadias and phimosis. A comparative study (European Urology, 2000)

link image  Sexual behavior and sexual function of adults after hypospadias surgery: a comparative study (Journal of Urology, 2004)

Examination of possible causes

link image  A case-control study on risk factors of hypospadias (Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi, 2004)

link image  Endocrine disruption and hypospadias (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 2004)

link image  Evaluation of an association between loratadine and hypospadias--United States, 1997-2001 (CDC Mortality and Morbity Weekly Report, 2004)

link image  Hypospadias and endocrine disruption: Is there a connection? (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2001)

link image  Lack of defects in androgen production in children with hypospadias (Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2004)

link image  Maternal and gestational risk fctors for hypospadias (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2008)

link image Potential health risks for DES sons (CDC Consumer Update, not dated)

link image Potential health tisks for third generation (Offspring of DES faughters and sons) (CDC Consumer Update, not dated)

Basic Research 

link image  Bidirectional signaling mediated by ephrin-B2 and EphB2 controls urorectal development (Developmental Biology, 2004)

 

 

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