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Volume 6, Issue 2

Reply to: Erosive balanitis caused by in a healthy, circumcised adult male Open Access

Abstract

In this short letter of correspondence, we provide our specialist interpretation of what has been described in a previously published case report. We argue that this case describes a patient with chronic, undertreated male genital lichen sclerosus. If left unchecked, as in this case, lichen sclerosus can cause permanent architectural changes and damage to the affected tissues, and can thus predisposes to secondary infections, including bacterial, such as with .

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Keyword(s): balanitis , balanoposthitis , lichen sclerosus , phimosis and Staphylococcus haemolyticus
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  • This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This article was made open access via a Publish and Read agreement between the Microbiology Society and the corresponding author’s institution.
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