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Phimosis Defined
Inability to retract the foreskin. Normal in all neonates (because the synechia attach the foreskin to the glans), many children and some adults (if the ridged band is short). In adults it is usually caused by infection, which needs to be treated. Blalock et al. found circumcision to cause phimosis in 2.9% of babies. Phimosis can be treated without surgery if it is painful or if the urinary flow is obstructed. European doctors limit the term to an inability to retract caused by scarring, such as results from Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans. Beaugé suggests a non-surgical method of treatment. Berdeu et al found non-surgical treatment to be more cost-effective than surgery. Lang found medical treatment to be effective in 53 out of 56 cases.
(Gk, = muzzling, but Frederick Hodges, in his essay "Phimosis in Antiquity", shows that the Greeks did not define it as modern medicine does, to include simple non-rectractability or "excessive" foreskin, but on the contrary recognised a condition of lipodermus - insufficient foreskin.)
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- Phimosis and Adult Circimcision: A personal account of someone who has experienced phimosis (tight foreskin) and the correction of adult circumcision. Definately worth a read from a health perspective so you are aware of the potential symptons.
Wed Sep 3
- Topical Betamethasone "Highly Efficacious" for Treatment of Phimosis: Young boys with phimosis respond well to topical betamethasone and adverse effects are rare and mild. The prepuce can be easily retracted after 21 days of treatment in the vast majority of cases, urologists at the Cleveland (Ohio) Clinic report. Drs. Lane S. and Jeffrey S. Palmer compared two topical betamethasone regimens in 200 consecutive boys with prepuces that were unretractable, such that the meatus could not be evaluated.
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- Adult Circumcision Styles: Técnicas de postectomia
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- How should phimosis be treated?: Betamethasone
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