Abstract
Deficient prepuce is not recognised before as a specific disease entity, and little attention was paid for this anomaly in the literature, herein this anomaly will be described with some details, as it may be associated with major penile deformities.
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Fahmy, M. (2017). Micropothia. In: Congenital Anomalies of the Penis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43310-3_5
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