Just about all medical research for phimosis is in children. By age ten, 50% of boys should be able to retract on their own. In 1993, researchers Kikiros and others studied the treatment of phimosis in boys using steroid creams and daily stretching. They created this classification to descri...
In 90% of cases, natural separation allows the foreskin to retract by age 3 years. However, phimosis persisting into late adolescence or early adulthood need not be considered abnormal. The entity of pathologic, or true, phimosis is far less common and can affect children or adults. This is...
The diagnosis of balanitis xerotica obliterans (BXO) in children may be challenging, since clinical examination only could lead to an underestimation of its incidence. The aim of this retrospective and single-centre study is to assess the diagnostic performance of clinical examination, together with ...
Just about all medical research for phimosis is in children. By age ten, 50% of boys should be able to retract on their own. In 1993, researchers Kikiros and others studied the treatment of phimosis in boys using steroid creams and daily stretching. They created this classification to...
Much of the stuff I read had lead me to believe that phimosis is only reversible in children and adults usually need surgical interventions. This is not true because many studies have shown that adult phimosis can be cured by manual stretching. I'm a perfect example of someone who had ...
In 90% of cases, natural separation allows the foreskin to retract by age 3 years. However, phimosis persisting into late adolescence or early adulthood need not be considered abnormal. The entity of pathologic, or true, phimosis is far less common and can affect children or adults. This is...
No. I am just good at reading.I am aware of NOmedical studies of treating phimosis in adults.In children, the success rate is over 90% within three months. Most doctors will prescribe the same steroid cream to adults as they do for children, but they may be unaware of the need to st...