During your assessment of an uncircumcised male infant, you observe that his foreskin is retracted and the penis is swollen distal to the foreskin. This condition is known as
a. paraphimosis. c. phimosis.
b. Peyronie's disease. d. priapism.
A
Inability to retract the foreskin is normal in infancy. Should the foreskin be retracted, the foreskin works as a circulatory constrictor, causing decreased blood flow, edema, and potential necrosis, even gangrene. This is called paraphimosis. Peyronie's disease involves the deposition of hardened, palpable, nontender plaques on the dorsal surface of the erect penis. Phimosis is an unusually long foreskin or one that cannot be retracted over the glans penis. Priapism is a continuous and pathological erection of the penis.
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