Which London surgeon used ‘beads and stops’ in his hypospadias repair?
A. McIndoeBrowne. Denis Browne, the paediatric surgeon from Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, used a buried skin strip like Duplay had done in the previous century and then repaired the lateral skin over it by creating an everted suture line. Instead of tying the stitches he used beads and crushable lead stops. The repair was usually accompanied by a ‘dorsal slit’ along the length of the penis to relax the suture line and was protected by a perineal urethrostomy.