- A boy from Duhok in Iraq had to have surgery to remove two extra penises
- He was born with a 2cm penis on the base of his phallus and another 1cm one
- Supernumerary penises occur in between one in five and six million boys born
A boy in Iraq who was born with three penises is the first child ever proven to have the strange deformity, doctors have claimed.
Doctors in the north of the country, near Mosul, believe they are the first to ever publish a study detailing a case of human triphallia – in which someone has three penises.
Only one was functional so the other two — attached to the shaft of his actual penis and bottom of his scrotum — were surgically removed.
The unidentified boy, a native Kurd from Duhok, was three months old when the tale was first published last year.
Doctors said one in every five to six million boys is born with more than one penis, with around 100 cases of diphallia – two penises – recorded worldwide.
But the Iraqi boy is the first to have triphallia, according to the case report published in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports.
One case in India went viral in 2015 but experts could not verify the tale because it was never detailed in a medical journal.
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