An American text-book of the diseases of children .. . PHIMOSIS AND PARAPHIMOSIS. 1031 following this operation la usually very satisfactory, and it will be found mostserviceable in oases where the prepuce is indurated or oedematous as a result of balanitis. Circumcision.—This operation in most cases of phimosis, and particularlyin congenital cases, is the one which is to be selected as securing the most satis-factory removal of the redundant prepuce and the freest exposure of the glanspenis. In performing the operation of circumcision the foreskin should bedrawn slightly forward and the blade
An American text-book of the diseases of children .. . PHIMOSIS AND PARAPHIMOSIS. 1031 following this operation la usually very satisfactory, and it will be found mostserviceable in oases where the prepuce is indurated or oedematous as a result of balanitis. Circumcision.—This operation in most cases of phimosis, and particularlyin congenital cases, is the one which is to be selected as securing the most satis-factory removal of the redundant prepuce and the freest exposure of the glanspenis. In performing the operation of circumcision the foreskin should bedrawn slightly forward and the blades of a pair of forceps, preferably Ricordsfenestrated forceps, or a modification of this instrument, fenestrated springforceps (Fig. 1), should be placed obliquely upon the foreskin, so that more Fig. 1.
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