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Megalopenis has defined objectively as the penile length more than 2 SD above the mean normal length for age. Abnormal largeness of the penis is an anomaly whereby the baby delivered with a large phallus, or it is enlarges rapidly in childhood, this may be a primary rare isolated non syndromic anomalies or due to abnormal high level of production of testosterone.
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Fahmy, M. (2017). Megalopenis. In: Congenital Anomalies of the Penis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43310-3_10
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