Circumcision and prepuce are common conditions in our clinics, and we often encounter a specific type of foreskin inflammation – it is dry occlusive glansitis.
Today we will talk about what is dry occlusive glans, also known as mossy sclerosing glans, a type of disease that occurs on the glans and foreskin and is characterized by chronic sclerosis and atrophy of the local mucosa and skin, most patients are combined with circumcision or phimosis. The clinical features are loss of pigmentation at the glans, foreskin and foreskin tie, local dryness and hardness, white color, easily leading to local cracking, bleeding, narrowing of the foreskin, and even involving the urethral orifice, resulting in difficulty in urination. Most of them are found on their own or during physical examination, and can occur at any age in men.
People are concerned about why this problem occurs. Scientists have done some research, the exact pathogenesis is not very clear, but most of the research shows that it may be autoimmune problems, such as familial diabetes, baldness, albinism and other skin diseases, as well as some thyroid disease is the cause of this disease, we clinically more common is that the male circumcision, circumcision caused by local humidity and chronic inflammatory infections, will be combined with such problems, this is This is relatively clear.
So what about such problems? Generally speaking, the progression of this disease is slow, and there is no specific treatment, but very rarely malignant. The main complication is the involvement of the mucous membrane of the external urethra, which causes difficulty in urination, and can be improved by surgery in severe cases. Most often combined with prepuce, surgical excision of the foreskin is recommended to improve local hygiene and avoid inflammatory irritation. It is beneficial to observe the progress of local lesions and the use of medication.