Phimosis Treatment In Delhi - Dr. Prashant Jain
What is Phimosis? Phimosis is defined as the inability to retract prepuce. Nonretractile foreskins are common among young boys and is a part of normal preputial development. The prepuce of new born is nonretractile and at the age of 3 years up to 10% remain non-retractile. It has been seen that 8% of boys at the age of 6 years and 1% at the age of 16 years still had non-retractile foreskin. The foreskin gradually becomes retractile secondary to intermittent erections and keratinization of the inner epithelium. That is most of the prepuce becomes retractile by adulthood. It is important to understand that most of these phimosis are physiological and do not require any surgical intervention. What is the difference between Pathological and physiological phimosis? It is important to differentiate true pathologic phimosis from physiological phimosis. While physiologic phimosis consists of the pliant, unscarred preputial orifice, true pathological phimosis is characterized by the contracted ...