Professor A¿hmed T. Hadidi completed his residency and post-graduate research in Cairo University, pursued further post-graduate surgical training in Glasgow, London, Melbourne, Los Angelos to reach the post as a Professor of Pediatric Surgery. He was the General director of Benha Children Hospital, and in 2004 became Consultant Pediatric Surgeon at the Mannheim-Heidelberg University. Since 2007, he has been Director of the Hypospadias Center and Pediatric Surgery Department, Offenbach Hospital, Germany, and Emma Klinik, Seligenstadt, Germany.

His list of qualifications and degrees include: MB BCh, MSc, PhD (Cairo University), ECFMG, USMLE (USA), FRCS (London & Glasgow), Diploma of Pediatric Surgery (London) and Facharzt Kinderchirurgie (Germany). He was awarded prizes from Cairo University, the British Society of Hand Surgery and the British Association of Pediatric Surgeons (BAPS). He was the first president of the Hypospadias International Society (HIS) and is currently the honorary President of the HIS Society. He has many publications in the field of Hypospadias Surgery, Congenital hand anomalies, Hirschsprung¿s disease, oesophageal surgery, neonatal surgery and Pediatric Plastic surgery. He was the editor of the first edition of the Hypospadias Surgery book and wrote chapters on Hypospadias Surgery and Hirschsprung¿s disease in several textbooks.

Offers an historical perspective on hypospadias surgery and its evolution

Comprehensive information on all operations by world pioneers in the field

Abundantly illustrated with diagrams, drawings and color photographs of operative procedures

Section 1. General & Basic Science.- Preface of first and second editions.- 1. History of hypospadias.- 2. Men behind principles and principles behind techniques.- 3. Normal Development of the Penis and Urethra .- 4. Surgical Anatomy of the Penis.- 5. Prepuce: Altered Development in Hypospadias and its Management based on Patho-embryologic Landmarks.- 6. Morphology of hypospadias.- 7. Pathogenesis of hypospadias.- 8. The Urethral Plate and Chordee.- 9. Classification & Assessment of hypospadias .- 10. Epidemology of hypospadias.- 11. Genetic Aspects of Hypospadias.- 12. Hormones and Growth of the Genital Tubercle.- 13. The Role of Preoperative Androgen Stimulation in the Management of Hypospadias.- 14. Timing of Surgery.- 15. General Principles.- 16. Plastic Surgery Principles.- 17. Principles of Hypospadias Surgery.- 18. Analgesia.- Section 2. Surgical Techniques.- 19. Grade I: Glanular Hypospadias Double Y Glanuloplasty (DYG) Technique.- 20. MAGPI and Modified MAGPI.- 21. The Meatal-based Flap Principle.- 22. Slit-Like adjusted Mathieu technique (SLAM).- 23. Megameatus Intact Prepuce (MIP) Deformity.- 24. Thiersch-Duplay Principle The Glans Approximation Procedure (GAP) .- 25. The Inverted Y Thiersch Technique.- 26. Incision of the Urethral Plate.- 27. Dorsal Inlay TIP (DTIP).- 28. Urethral Advancement for Treatment of Distal Hypospadias.- 29. Glanular urethral Disassembly (GUD) technique.- 30. Proximal Hypospadias with Small Flat Glans; The Lateral Based Onlay (LABO) Flap Technique.- 31. The Island Onlay Hypospadias Repair.- 32. Perineal Hypospadias The Bilateral Based (BILAB) Skin Flap Technique.- 33. Chordee Excision and Distal Urethroplasty (CEDU) for Perineal Hypospadias.- 34. Preputial Island Flaps.- 35. The modified Asopa (Hodgson XX) procedure to repair hypospadias with chordee.- 36. Koyanagi Technique and its Modifications in Management of Proximal Hypospadias.- 37. The Yoke Hypospadias Repair.- 38. Dorsal Longitudinal Penile Skin Island Flap in One-Stage Repair of Hypospadias with Penoscrotal Transposition.- 39. Grafts for one stage repair.- 40. Two-Stage Graft Urethroplasty Free Full-Thickness Wolfe Graft.- 41. The Cecil Culp Technique.- 42. The Foreskin and Circumcision.- 43. Protective intermediate layer.- 44. Procedures to Improve the Appearance of the Meatus and Glans.- 45. Buried penis.- 46. Penile torsion.- 47. Congenital Urethral Duplication.- 48. Large Prostatic Utricle Associated to Hypospadias.- 49. Penoscrotal Transposition.- 50. Uncommon Conditions and Complications.- 51. Hypospadias surgery in Adults.- 52. Flaps versus Grafts.- 53. Single Stage versus Two Stage Repair.- 54. Stenting versus no stenting.- 55. Dressing versus no dressing.- 56. Editorial Overview of Current Management of Hypospadias.- Section 3. Complications.- 57. Early complications.- 58. Meatal stenosis and urethral stricture .- 59. Functional Urethral obstruction (FUO).- 60. Hypospadias fistula .- 61. Genital Lichen sclerosus (Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans) A review.- 62. Urethral diverticulae and acquired megalo urethra.- 63. Management of failed hypospadias surgery.- 64. Complex and Redo Hypospadias Repairs: Management of 402 Patients.- Section 4. Long Term results.- 65. Long term consequences of hypospadias repair.- 66. Long term follow up in hypospadias repair: what is it and are we there yet?.- 67. The Story of my Life with Hypospadias.- 68. Tissue Engineering and Future Frontiers.- 69. How to write a paper on hypospadias..- 70. Hypospadias Centers, Training and Hypospadias Diploma.