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'''Preputial stenosis'''. ''Stenosis'' is "an abnormal narrowing or contraction of a body passage or opening; and is sometimes called ''stricture''.<ref>{{REFweb
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}}</ref> Preputial stenosis is a narrowing of the prepuce. The term ''preputial stenosis'' usually refers to a narrow prepuce in young [[intact]] boys, resulting in developmentally non-retractile [[foreskin]], however, it is also applied to a post-circumcision condition in which the circumcision cicatrix forms distal to the [[glans penis]] and contracts holding the foreskin forward over the glans penis.<ref name="blalock2003">{{REFjournal
|last=Blalock
|init=HJ
|last2=Vemulakonda
|init2=V
|last3=Ritchey
|init3=ML
|last4=Ribbeck
|init4=M
|title=Outpatient management of [[phimosis]] Following newborn circumcision
|journal=J Urol
|date=2003
|volume=169
|issue=6
|pages=2332-2334
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/blalock1/
|accessdate=2022-02-17
}}</ref>
{{REF}}
|url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/stenosis
|archived=
|title=Stenosis
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|language=
|last=
|first=
|author-link=
|publisher=The Free Dictionary
|website=
|date=2003
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}}</ref> Preputial stenosis is a narrowing of the prepuce. The term ''preputial stenosis'' usually refers to a narrow prepuce in young [[intact]] boys, resulting in developmentally non-retractile [[foreskin]], however, it is also applied to a post-circumcision condition in which the circumcision cicatrix forms distal to the [[glans penis]] and contracts holding the foreskin forward over the glans penis.<ref name="blalock2003">{{REFjournal
|last=Blalock
|init=HJ
|last2=Vemulakonda
|init2=V
|last3=Ritchey
|init3=ML
|last4=Ribbeck
|init4=M
|title=Outpatient management of [[phimosis]] Following newborn circumcision
|journal=J Urol
|date=2003
|volume=169
|issue=6
|pages=2332-2334
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/blalock1/
|accessdate=2022-02-17
}}</ref>
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