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== Adult onset phimosis ==
Phimosis or tight foreskin may be caused by a yeast infection. The proper treatment is to use an anti-fungal drug such as, for example, a cream that contains [https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-4316/clotrimazole-topical/details Clotrimazole].
Lichen Sclerosis, formerly called [[balanitis xerotica obliterans]] when it occurs in males, hardens the [[foreskin]] and makes it non-retractable.
Pathological phimosis usually requires treatment.
A [[Adolescent and adult circumcision is | circumcision]] may be indicated in severe cases of pathological phimosis, where neither non-surgical methods with corticosteroid cream nor foreskin-preserving [[preputioplasty ]] are promising (for example with chronic balanitis xerotica obliterans) or have failed in previous attempts.
== Short frenulum (frenulum breve) ==