Conservative Treatment of Phimosis: Alternatives to Radical Circumcision This page provides information on conservative treatments of foreskin problems such as phimosis and preputial stenosis. In accordance with standard medical ethics, these treatments avoid unnecessarily radical surgery, and preserve normal physiologic function of the patient's body. Note: Reports suggest that external ...

This page provides information on the normal growth and development of the male prepuce from birth through adulthood.

Balanitis - Balanitis is inflammation of the glans penis. Balanitis involving the foreskin or prepuce is termed balanoposthitis. The most common complication of balanitis is phimosis, or inability to retract the foreskin from the glans ...

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 ...

This file contains an article that describes the painless separation of preputial adhesions under topical anethesia.

Study evaluating the effectiveness of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory ointment for the treatment of phimosis.

ANNALS OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGERY OF ENGLAND, Volume 76, Number 4, 1994, Pages 257-8. Prepuceplasty: An alternative to circumcision Hubert De Castella FRCS FACS Consultant Surgeon Burton Hospitals NHS Trust, Burton-upon-Trent Keywords: Circumcision; Phimosis; Prepuce The operation of prepuceplasty overcomes phimosis in children while conserving the foreskin. The narrowed preputial outlet is ...