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Man, 30, left with spherical penis after huge genital cysts caused it to balloon

A man has two cysts surgically removed from his genitals after suffering extreme swelling in his penis for three years.

The 30-year-old man was rushed to a hospital on the south-west cost of India where he showed the doctors his 'bulbous and swollen tip' that looked like a 'club penis'.

Experts at Justice K S Hegde Charitable Hospital found two cysts next to one another, at about 1.3-inch and 0.8-inch wide, Mail Online reports.

The man was diagnosed with epidermoid cysts, which are caused by build-ups of fluid or semi-fluid substances in sacs of skin.

Doctors also found he had phimosis, also known as tight foreskin, a condition where the foreskin is too tight to be pulled back over the head of the penis.

Doctors found two cysts on the tip of the patient's penis (Getty)

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The man's symptoms had worsened over a three-year period.

Doctors had to put him under spinal anaesthesia before circumcising him and removing the lumps.

The surgeons wrote in the Journal of Medical Case Reports: "The swellings were excised entirely and circumcision completed.

"Our patient had a smooth postoperative recovery and at follow-up the wound had healed primarily."

They explained the condition was rare but not life-threatening as penile epidermoid cysts are uncommon.

"Epidermoid cysts of the penis are mostly solitary and multiple ones are very rare," they said.

The patient has reportedly made a full recovery after the operation.

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