Abstract
Zoon’s balanitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the glans penis diagnosed histologically. Its a chronic disease of unknown etiology, described mainly in middle-aged or elderly uncircumcised man that begins as one or more roundish or polycyclic dark red patches with indistinct borders on the glans and/or internal preputial lamina. This type of balanitis is considered as a benign lesion, but it could be precancerous. Many therapeutic modalities are described to treat such cases, and different types of laser are also effective.
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Abbreviations
- SCC:
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Squamous cell carcinoma
- ZB:
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Zoon’s balanitis
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Fahmy, M.A.B. (2020). Zoon’s Balanitis. In: Normal and Abnormal Prepuce. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37621-5_22
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