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meatal stenosis

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meatal stenosis,
a constriction or narrowing of the urinary meatus, seen most often in boys or men as a complication of circumcision and meatitis.

meatal stenosis
Urethral meatal stenosis Urology Meatal closure, seen only in ♂, virtually exclusive to uncircumcised penises, due to irritation of the urethral opening at the penile tip, leading to tissue overgrowth and scarring; back pressure causes painful urination and occasionally bleeding at the end of urination. See Circumcision.


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2) He suggested central tympanic membrane rupture, external meatal fractures with marginal tympanic membrane injury, soft-tissue and bony defects of the mastoid and, lastly, meatal stenosis as causes of cholesteatomas.
A YOU have a relatively common problem known as a meatal stenosis, when the end of the urethra is narrowed.
Significant urethral meatal stenosis due to balanitis xerotica obliterans is treated with hydrocortisone, but urethral dilation and/or meatotomy may be required.
 
 
 
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