Phimosis
While the condition can be acquired as a result of chronic or acute inflammation of the lining of the prepuce, usually it is due to congenital narrowing of the prepuce orifice, often associated with an unduly long foreskin.
Clinical features of Phimosis
- In extreme examples of congenital phimosis when the person urinates, the prepuce balloons out first and a thin, weak stream of urine follows.
- Painful urination is common with residual urine.
- Hydroureters or inflammation of the ureters is uncommon.
- Hydronephrosis or swelling of kidney due to phimosis is rare.
Phimosis Treatment
The treatment for phimosis is Circumcision.
Indications for circumcision
a. In infants and young boys
- Because of a request by the parents (religious and personal); because of recurrent balanitis (inflammation of the tip of penis) with inability to retract the prepuce and rarely because of a very long prepuce.
- Except for ritual operation most circumcisions are unnecessary.
- It is normal for the prepuce to be long and adherent to the glans within, for these parts become satisfactorily separated and the prepuce mobile in the first few years of life.
- Recurrent balanoposthitis (inflammation of the penis) and phimosis often follow attempts by the parents forcibly to retract the prepuce.
b. In adults
- Because of inability to retract for intercourse.
- A tight frenum.
- Balanitis.
- Sometimes prior to radiotherapy for carcinoma a dorsal slit may suffice.
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