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==Zoon balanitis==
==Zoon balanitis==
*[[AKA]] ''balanitis circumscripta plasmacellularis''.
*[[AKA]] ''balanitis circumscripta plasmacellularis''.<ref name=pmid20652106 >{{Cite journal  | last1 = Balato | first1 = N. | last2 = Scalvenzi | first2 = M. | last3 = La Bella | first3 = S. | last4 = Di Costanzo | first4 = L. | title = Zoon's Balanitis: Benign or Premalignant Lesion? | journal = Case Rep Dermatol | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 7-10 | month =  | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1159/000210440 | PMID = 20652106 }}</ref>


===General===
===General===
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===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:
Features:<ref name=pmid20652106/>
*Abundant [[plasma cell]]s - '''key feature'''.
*Abundant [[plasma cell]]s - '''key feature'''.
*Dermal atrophy.
*[[Spongiosis]] and intraepithelial lymphocytes.
*Tortuosity dermal [[blood vessel]]s.


DDx:
DDx:

Revision as of 14:26, 30 April 2013

The penis is occasionally afflicted by disease that the pathologist see.

It is afflicted by common skin pathologies.

Diseases

Inflammatory

Infectious

Other non-tumour

Pre-cancerous

Neoplastic

Others:

Specific conditions

Phimosis

General

  • Cannot be retract foreskin.
  • This is a clinical diagnosis.

Microscopic

Features:[1]

  • +/-Inflammation.
  • Fibrosis.

Notes: Findings non-specific.

DDx - general:

Penile fibromatosis

  • AKA Peyronie's disease.

General

  • Prevalence ~5%.[2]

Treatment:

  • Conservative versus surgery.

Gross

  • Abnormal curvature of the penis, esp. in the erect state.

Microscopic

Features:[2]

  • Tunica albuginea fibrosis.

Zoon balanitis

  • AKA balanitis circumscripta plasmacellularis.[3]

General

  • Balanitis = inflammation of glands penis.
  • Rare.

Microscopic

Features:[3]

DDx:

See also

References

  1. Humphrey, Peter A; Dehner, Louis P; Pfeifer, John D (2008). The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology (1st ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 391. ISBN 978-0781765275.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Serefoglu, EC.; Hellstrom, WJ. (Dec 2011). "Treatment of Peyronie's disease: 2012 update.". Curr Urol Rep 12 (6): 444-52. doi:10.1007/s11934-011-0212-2. PMID 21818660.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Balato, N.; Scalvenzi, M.; La Bella, S.; Di Costanzo, L. (2009). "Zoon's Balanitis: Benign or Premalignant Lesion?". Case Rep Dermatol 1 (1): 7-10. doi:10.1159/000210440. PMID 20652106.