Claim: Paraphimosis can be treated by surgical manipulation through stretching combined with the use of a corticosteroid cream.
Evidence: Stretching may be combined with the use of a corticosteroid cream. Non-surgical stretching of the foreskin may be used to widen a narrow, non-retractable foreskin. Phimosis (both pathologic and normal childhood physiologic forms) is a risk factor for paraphimosis; physiologic phimosis resolves naturally as a child matures, but it may be advisable to treat pathologic phimosis via long-term stretching or elective surgical techniques (such as preputioplasty to loosen the preputial orifice or circumcision to amputate the foreskin tissue partially or completely).