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Diabetes-related need for circumcision
1Department of Urology, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract:
A twelve-year retrospective study reviewing circumcision in 107 patients showed that of 94 patients with balanoposthitis 25.5 per cent had diagnosed diabetes mellitus while 3.2 per cent had unknown diabetes. In the fifty- to sixty-year-old age group, 83.3 per cent of circumcised patients had diabetes. In this age bracket there is a definite correlation of a diabetes-related need for circumcision. There is no significant histologic difference by light microscopy between prepuces in diabetic and nondiabetic patients.
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