[Psychological aspects of genital surgery in childhood].

Although the children's urogenital surgery is discipline in expansion which successfully solves even the most complicated anomalies of urogeniral tract, only lately there is enough attention paid on the psychological aspects of these anomalies and surgical operation on genitals. The boys with hypospadias, phimosis and other congenital anomalies represent a risky group for the difficulties in forming the sexual identity and for the appearance of different psychopathology in their childhood and later in life. The surgical operation itself presents a traumatic situation for the child and it may discredit the later psychosexual development of these boys in a great deal.