During the years 1985 up to 1995 53 @entity1 between 18 and 80 years of age (mean age 54.7 years) with histologically and clinically proven @entity24596 were treated by circumcision. The majority of @entity1 had symptoms for more than 12 months. In five cases they had lasted for 8, 10, 16, 17 and 47 (!) years. 30 @entity1 were investigated by means of physical examination and questionnaire in this retrospective study. Lesions involved glans in all @entity1 , while in 17 of 30 @entity1 both glans and prepuce were involved. None of the @entity1 showed lesions of the prepuce only. In most cases @entity24596 was successfully treated by circumcision in a period of two to four weeks. In four cases, @entity75 , and in one case lichen ruber was diagnosed. In the remaining @entity1 , whose circumcision was inadequate, a small area of @entity24596 persisted in the sulcus coronarius still covered by the foreskin. The curative effect of adequate circumcision in 100% of @entity1 suggests that @entity24596 is a relatively non-specific @entity24596 caused by a disturbed "preputial-ecology". It is remarkable that other distinct inflammatory diseases of glans and prepuce can show features which are identical to those @entity24596 .

[ XXXX /balanoposthitis chronica circumscripta benigna plasmacellularis--entity or fiction?].

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient'] @entity24596 :: ('MESH:D001446', 'Disease') :: ['balanitis', "Zoon's balanitis", 'reactive balanitis'] @entity75 :: ('MESH:D001927', 'Disease') :: ['psoriatic lesions']
@entity24596 :: (MESH:D001446,Disease) :: ['Balanitis']
