Balanitis xerotica obliterans

Twenty patients with histologically proven balantis xerotica obliterans have undergone different forms of treatment; their progress has been reviewed and discussed. Balanitis xerotica obliterans involving only the foreskin was best treated by circumcision. The patients in whom meatal stenosis was present responded well to regular meatal dilatation, meatotomy followed by regular dilatation and, in advanced cases, to meatoplasty. At present there is no evidence to indicate that associated urethral strictures, proximal to the fossa navicularis, are due to balanitis xerotica obliterans.