World's 1st Penis Reduction Surgery Performed in Florida

A University of South Florida doctor is getting the credit for performing the world’s first penis reduction surgery.

Dr. Rafael Carrion, director of USF’s Sexual Medicine Program and a urologist, performed the groundbreaking procedure on a 17-year-old Florida boy whose unusually large phallus was getting in the way of everyday life, the USF Oracle reported.

The teen’s flaccid genitalia measured nearly 7 inches in length and had a circumference of 10 inches, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

“It sounds like a man’s dream — a tremendously inflated phallus — but unfortunately although it was a generous length, its girth was just massive, especially around the middle,” the paper quoted Carrion as saying.

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With no roadmap to go on for a procedure, the surgical team led by Carrion bypassed the urethra and the organ’s sensation nerves, the Oracle reported, cutting along the circumcision scar to ultimately remove tissue from both sides of the penis.

The end result is an organ that’s still slightly thicker than the average, but “symmetrical,” the paper reported.

While a case report on the groundbreaking surgery was published in “The Journal of Sexual Medicine” in November, news about the boy’s unusual problem and the resulting surgery just broke in recent days. The journal’s case report about the surgery is aptly titled, “The Reduction Corporoplasty: The Answer to the Improbably Urologic Question ‘Can You Make My Penis Smaller?’”

Since the case report was published, Carrion has one other patient request a similar procedure.

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