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|DOI=10.1002/bjs.1800801005
|accessdate=2022-01-27
}}</ref> It rarely, if ever, occurs in [[intact]] males. Urethrocutaneous fistula is an opening of the [[urethra]] on the ventral side of the [[penis]]. Ahmed et al. (1999) report that fistula also occurs in areas where traditional circumcision is still practiced.<ref name="ahmed1999">{{REFjournal |last=Ahmed |first= |init=A |author-link= |last2=Mbibi |first2= |init2=NH |author2-link= |last3=Dawam |first3= |init3=D |author3-link= |last4=Kalawi |first4= |init4=GD |author4-link= |etal=no |title=Complications of traditional male circumcision |trans-title= |language= |journal=Ann Trop Paediatr |location= |date=1999-03-01 |volume=19 |issue=1 |article= |page=113-7 |pages= |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/ahmed1/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=10605531 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1080/02724939992743 |accessdate=2022-01-27}}</ref>
The human penis is made up of three columns of tissue: two corpora cavernosa lie next to each other on the dorsal side and one corpus spongiosum lies between them on the ventral side. The urethra passes through the corpus spongiosum near the ventral surface of the penis shaft. Occasionally, during a circumcision mishap, the urethra is opened on the ventral surface to create the urethrocutaneous fistula.