Paediatric Surgery

Mr Alan Park F.R.C.S. (Plast) is a Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon based in Coventry and Warwickshire. A full range of surgeries and treatments is available.

Prominent Ear Correction (Pinnaplasty)

Some people are born with ears that either stick out more than usual or are a different shape. Pinnaplasty can improve this.

Hypospadias

Hypospadias is a birth defect of the urethra in the male that involves an abnormally placed urethral meatus (opening). Instead of opening at the tip of the penis, a hypospadic urethra opens anywhere along a line running from the tip along the underside of the shaft to the junction of the penis and scrotum or perineum. A distal hypospadias may be suspected even in an uncircumcised boy from an abnormally formed foreskin and downward tilt of the glans.

The urethral meatus opens on the glans penis in about 50-75% of cases; these are categorized as glanular hypospadias. Hypospadias of the shaft (when the urethra opens on the shaft), and peroneum (when the urethra opens on the perineum) occur in up to 20 and 30% of cases respectively. The more severe degrees are more likely to be associated with chordee or curvature. Undescended testes and hernias can be associated with hypospadias.