Abstract
The most common cystic lesion of the penis and prepuce is the smegma cyst, which sometimes called “smegmoma”, and usually seen under the unretractable prepuce, it may appear yellowish due to smegma content. Preputial cyst generally divided into two main categories: median raphe (urethroid) cysts and epidermoid (follicular) cysts.
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Fahmy, M. (2017). Preputial Cysts. In: Congenital Anomalies of the Penis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43310-3_7
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