Traditional misconceptions in hypospadias surgery – Letter to the editor regarding “Two-stage repair for primary hypospadias: Functional and cosmetic outcomes in 145 cases with a follow-up period of over five years”

In this article, the authors analyze urinary and sexual functions, postoperative complications, and cosmetic results in patients who have undergone two-stage primary hypospadias repair (1). The misconception of relying on tradition is widespread in medicine, can be taught by the experts, and if one is not careful, can be very convincing. This also leads to the acceptance of complications, and there is no other surgical specialty that accepts postoperative complications as readily as hypospadias surgery.