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Epidemiology of Hypospadias

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Most estimates of prevalence of hypospadias in Europe and the USA range up to a maximum of 3 per 1,000 births, with two-thirds to three-quarters of cases being glanular or coronal (Table 3.1).

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  1. Cairo University Hospital, 32 Haroon Street 32, El Messaha Dokki, Cairo, 12311, Egypt

    Ahmed T. Hadidi

  2. Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow, G3 8SJ, UK

    Amir F. Azmy

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Dolk, H. (2004). Epidemiology of Hypospadias. In: Hadidi, A.T., Azmy, A.F. (eds) Hypospadias Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07841-9_3

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