Preputioplasty

Preputioplasty
Phimotic foreskin retracted from glans with stenosis creating a "waist"
SpecialtyUrology

Preputioplasty or prepuce plasty, also known as limited dorsal slit with transverse closure, is a plastic surgical operation on the prepuce or foreskin of the penis,[1] to widen a narrow non-retractile foreskin which cannot comfortably be drawn back off the head of the penis in erection because of a constriction (stenosis) which has not expanded after adolescence.

Preputioplasty is a treatment for phimosis in the alternative to circumcision and radical dorsal slit

  • which is conservative, non-traumatic and less invasive and can be performed on an outpatient basis under local anaesthetic in a doctor's office and
  • has the advantage of healing very quickly with little or no significant cosmetic alteration to the appearance of the penis.[citation needed]
  1. ^ Barber NJ, Chappell B, Carter PG, Britton JP (September 2003). "Is preputioplasty effective and acceptable?". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 96 (9): 452–53. doi:10.1177/014107680309600909. PMC 539601. PMID 12949202.