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Topic: Phimosis

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	How should phimosis be treated?
		True phimosis has been defined as scarring of the tip of the prepuce, and is usually due to Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans (BXO) [ 7 ].
		The incidence of pathological phimosis in boys has been recently reported as 0.4 cases/1000 boys per year, or 0.6% of boys affected by their 15th birthday [ 8 ].
		Patients and their parents should be advised not to attempt forcible or premature retraction of the foreskin, and to avoid excessive washing with soap.
	www.norm-uk.org /phimosis_clinical_guidelines.html (1148 words)

	Phimosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phimosis is a medical condition in which the foreskin of the penis of an uncircumcised male cannot be fully retracted.
		Phimosis is sometimes used as a justification for circumcision (3,13) so that it will be covered by a national health system or insurance plan.
		An important cause of acquired, pathological phimosis is chronic balanitis xerotica obliterans (BXO), a skin condition of unknown origin that causes a whitish ring of indurated tissue (a cicatrix) to form near the tip of the prepuce.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phimosis (2255 words)

	Phimosis in antiquity
		Phimosis has, accordingly, been described as a foreskin that is "too long" (hypertrophic phimosis), a foreskin whose orifice is not as expandable as the foreskin of most adults (often called "true" phimosis), or a foreskin that has not yet completed the developmental process of physiological detachment from the glans (congenital phimosis).
		In contrast to the nineteenth-century conceptualisation of phimosis, which is predicated upon an alleged universality and defined purely in terms of a misunderstanding of preputial development and a biased view of penile morphology, the conception of phimosis in antiquity was based on rarity and on clinically verifiable histological pathology.
		The nineteenth-century conceptualisation of phimosis was predicated on the pathologisation of the three defining characteristics of the juvenile foreskin: physiological preputial nonretractability; physiological balanopreputial attachment, and generous length of the acroposthion.
	www.foreskin.org /phi-fh.htm (2809 words)

	eMedicine - Phimosis, Adult Circumcision, and Buried Penis : Article by Richard A Santucci, MD, FACS
		Phimosis is defined as the inability of the prepuce (foreskin) to be retracted behind the glans penis in uncircumcised males.
		Phimosis is defined as a condition in which the foreskin cannot be retracted behind the head of the penis.
		Congenital or physiologic phimosis is clinically asymptomatic and not a cause for concern.
	www.emedicine.com /med/topic2873.htm (7804 words)

	Phimosis
		Phimosis in most but not all infants is physiologic rather than pathologic, whereas phimosis in older children and adults is more often pathologic than physiologic.
		Some physicians, particularly in the middle of the twentieth century, used avoidance of phimosis as justification for routine neonatal circumcision.13 Circumcision does prevent phimosis, although by some incidence statistics, at least 10 to 20 infants must be circumcised to prevent each case of potential phimosis.
		Phimosis in infancy is nearly always physiologic, and needs to be treated only if it is causing obvious problems such as urinary discomfort or obstruction.
	www.mrsci.com /Andrology/Phimosis.php (2067 words)

	eMedicine - Phimosis and Paraphimosis : Article by Santos Cantu, Jr, MD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Acquired phimosis is usually the result of poor hygiene or chronic balanoposthitis, which eventually leads to the formation of a fibrotic ring of tissue close to the opening of the prepuce.
		In children with congenital phimosis, the congenitally narrowed preputial opening is the usual cause of paraphimosis, especially after parents forcibly retract the foreskin while attempting to clean the glans or after catheterizations of the bladder are performed by medical personnel who retract the foreskin and fail to reduce it back over the glans.
		Phimosis and paraphimosis are clinical diagnoses, thus lab and imaging studies are not indicated.
	www.emedicine.com /emerg/topic423.htm (2261 words)

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