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Plasma cell balanitis

No MMS code

Link to WHO Definition

Plasma cell balanitis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/552673288

Plasma cell balanitis presents in middle-aged or elderly uncircumcised men as one or more indolent circumscribed shiny smooth red plaques on the glans. It is thought that retention of urine and squames between the tightly apposed and infrequently or inappropriately bathed, commensally hypercolonized epithelial surfaces of the prepuce and glans results in chronic inflammation. It is important that this condition is differentiated from penile intraepithelial neoplasia which may have a similar clinical appearance.