The prepuce: Preservation and reconstruction

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 575-582

  Haseebuddin, Mohammed ^a   Brandes, Steven B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Prepuce preservation; Prepuce reconstruction; Prepuce sparing

Indexed keywords

CANCER RECURRENCE; CIRCUMCISION; FASCIA; HISTORICAL PERIOD; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PENILE BLOOD VESSEL; PENILE DEGLOVING SURGERY; PENIS AMPUTATION; PENIS CANCER; PENIS DISEASE; PENIS PROSTHESIS; PHIMOSIS; PREPUCE; PREPUTIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; URETHRA FISTULA; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

CIRCUMCISION, MALE; FORESKIN; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; MALE; PENILE DISEASES; PENILE NEOPLASMS; PHIMOSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE EXPANSION DEVICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 55149107380     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOU.0b013e328311c9c2     Document Type: Review

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