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Authored by Santos Cantu, Jr., M.D., Fellow, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Instructor and Fellow of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine and of Pediatrics, University of Ro...
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eMedicine - Phimosis and Paraphimosis : Article by Santos Cantu, Jr, MD
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Phimosis and Paraphimosis - The true definition of phimosis has been confused in the literature. Essentially, there are two entities, based on age and pathophysiology: congenital phimosis and acquired phimosis. Both terms imply the inability to retract the distal prepuce over the glans penis. Once the foreskin can be retracted so that the glans penis partially appears, a phimosis is no longer present. Paraphimosis is the entrapment of a retracted foreskin behind the coronal sulcus. These conditions occur in the ...
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