Foreskin trapped by zipper: a case report

We present an 84 year-old-male patient with foreskin trapped by his zipper. After several failed attempts with scissors, screwdriver and others we practise an elliptic incision to resolve the problem. Foreskin injuries are frequent in children but are rare in adult men. There are some techniques des...

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Autores principales: Arrabal-Polo, Miguel Angel, Arias-Santiago, Salvador A, Giron-Prieto, Maria Sierra, Arrabal-Martin, Miguel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740150/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829791
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6345
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author Arrabal-Polo, Miguel Angel
Arias-Santiago, Salvador A
Giron-Prieto, Maria Sierra
Arrabal-Martin, Miguel
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Arias-Santiago, Salvador A
Giron-Prieto, Maria Sierra
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description We present an 84 year-old-male patient with foreskin trapped by his zipper. After several failed attempts with scissors, screwdriver and others we practise an elliptic incision to resolve the problem. Foreskin injuries are frequent in children but are rare in adult men. There are some techniques described for solving the problem using scissors, screwdriver, traction and surgery.
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spelling pubmed-27401502009-10-14 Foreskin trapped by zipper: a case report Arrabal-Polo, Miguel Angel Arias-Santiago, Salvador A Giron-Prieto, Maria Sierra Arrabal-Martin, Miguel Cases J Case report We present an 84 year-old-male patient with foreskin trapped by his zipper. After several failed attempts with scissors, screwdriver and others we practise an elliptic incision to resolve the problem. Foreskin injuries are frequent in children but are rare in adult men. There are some techniques described for solving the problem using scissors, screwdriver, traction and surgery. Cases Network Ltd 2009-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2740150/ /pubmed/19829791 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6345 Text en © 2009 Arrabal-Polo et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Arrabal-Polo, Miguel Angel
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Giron-Prieto, Maria Sierra
Arrabal-Martin, Miguel
Foreskin trapped by zipper: a case report
title Foreskin trapped by zipper: a case report
title_full Foreskin trapped by zipper: a case report
title_fullStr Foreskin trapped by zipper: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Foreskin trapped by zipper: a case report
title_short Foreskin trapped by zipper: a case report
title_sort foreskin trapped by zipper: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740150/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829791
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6345
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