Fusions and adhesions: Difference between revisions

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|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.1090570409

|accessdate=2025-12-03

}}</ref> The membrane, which is called the <i>balanopreputial lamina</i>, is common to both parts, so retraction of the boy's foreskin is prevented by nature. There is good reason for this, since the [[foreskin]] provides protection to the [[penis]] while in the diaper, which usually contains feces, urine, and ammonia. Boys with a protective foreskin do not develop [[meatal stenosis]].

}}</ref> The membrane, which is called the <i>balanopreputial lamina</i>, is common to both parts, so retraction of the boy's foreskin is prevented by nature. There is good reason for this, since the [[foreskin]] provides protection to the [[penis]] while in the diaper, which usually contains feces, urine, and ammonia.<ref>{{REFjournal

|last=Brennemann

|init=J

|author-link=

|url=https://ia800607.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/8/items/crossref-pre-1923-scholarly-works/10.1001%252Farchpedi.1915.04110040066007.zip&file=10.1001%252Farchpedi.1921.01910310043003.pdf

|title=The Ulcerated Meatus in the Circumcised Child

|journal=Am J Dis Child

|date=1921

|volume=21

|issue=

|pages=38-47

|format=PDF

|accessdate=2025-12-04

}}</ref> Boys with a protective foreskin do not develop [[meatal stenosis]].

The fusion of the balanopreputial lamina gradually breaks down over a widely variable period of years, so the foreskin can be retracted. Thorvaldsen & Meyhoff (2005) reported the mean age of first foreskin retraction to be 10.4 years.<ref name="thorvaldsen2005">{{REFjournal

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   |DOI=https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.1090570409
   |accessdate=2025-12-03
-}}</ref> The membrane, which is called the <i>balanopreputial lamina</i>, is common to both parts, so retraction of the boy's foreskin is prevented by nature. There is good reason for this, since the [[foreskin]] provides protection to the [[penis]] while in the diaper, which usually contains feces, urine, and ammonia. Boys with a protective foreskin do not develop [[meatal stenosis]].
+}}</ref> The membrane, which is called the <i>balanopreputial lamina</i>, is common to both parts, so retraction of the boy's foreskin is prevented by nature. There is good reason for this, since the [[foreskin]] provides protection to the [[penis]] while in the diaper, which usually contains feces, urine, and ammonia.<ref>{{REFjournal
+ |last=Brennemann
+ |init=J
+ |author-link=
+ |url=https://ia800607.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/8/items/crossref-pre-1923-scholarly-works/10.1001%252Farchpedi.1915.04110040066007.zip&file=10.1001%252Farchpedi.1921.01910310043003.pdf
+ |title=The Ulcerated Meatus in the Circumcised Child
+ |journal=Am J Dis Child
+ |date=1921
+ |volume=21
+ |issue=
+ |pages=38-47
+ |format=PDF
+ |accessdate=2025-12-04
+}}</ref> Boys with a protective foreskin do not develop [[meatal stenosis]].
 The fusion of the balanopreputial lamina gradually breaks down over a widely variable period of years, so the foreskin can be retracted. Thorvaldsen & Meyhoff (2005) reported the mean age of first foreskin retraction to be 10.4 years.<ref name="thorvaldsen2005">{{REFjournal