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Check Age to Pick Appropriate Circumcision Option

Published on Thu Dec 09, 2021

Question: A 50-year-old male patient has severe phimosis, and my urologist is ruling out carcinoma. My urologist performed a removal of the foreskin mass, a lysis of severe foreskin to glans adhesions, and phalloplasty with circumcision. During the procedure, after successful induction of anesthesia, my urologist sterilely prepped and draped the patient’s penis. My urologist could palpate a 1 cm [...]
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