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Case Reports
. 2016:160:D224.

[A toddler with a swelling of his penis]

[Article in Dutch]
P Staps  1 , C C J M Smeets
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  • PMID: 27405570
Case Reports

[A toddler with a swelling of his penis]

[Article in Dutch]
P Staps et al. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2016.

Abstract

A 4-year-old boy presented with a subcutaneous, yellowish swelling of 0.8 by 1.5 cm on his penis. We made the diagnosis of a smegma retention cyst. This cyst is the result of a physiologic phenomenon that originates from the separation of the foreskin.

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