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Special Surgical Techniques for Relief of Phimosis

TOSHIHIDE OHJIMI M.D.

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Dr. T. Ohjimi is Director, Sexual Medical Center, Ohjimi Clinic.

Ohjimi Clinic, 2–1–5, Ikebukuro, Toshimaku, Tokyo, Japan
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HIROYUKI OHJIMI M.D.

Dr. H. Ohjimi is Consulting Surgeon, Ohjimi Clinic.

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First published: April 1981
Cited by: 5

Abstract

Almost one‐half of the population of adolescent and adult Japanese males suffers from some degree of phimosis, i.e., the condition in which the prepuce is too long or too tightly covers the glans penis and causes complications. This condition makes local hygiene difficult, promotes secondary infection and purulence, retards maturation of the penis, and leads to sexual dysfunction that is psychologically and maritally distressing. Circumcision shortly after birth is not ordinarily practiced in Japan, and when relief of phimosis and its complications is attempted later in life by the conventional technique of circumcision or by limited operations like dorsal slit of the prepuce or incision of the frenulum of the prepuce, the condition and its related problems are not readily or always satisfactorily corrected. Consequently, new surgical techniques have been devised and are practiced at the Ohjimi Clinic for the relief of phimosis, especially for the sexual dysfunction that results from it.

Number of times cited: 5

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