Last update:
29-Sep-2023

Isolated deficient prepuce is an entity with little attention in literature. Hooded prepuce is the only well-known preputial deficit in all cases of hypospadias. Aposthia is a very rare developmental anomaly in which the foreskin is totally absent, known as congenital or natural circumcision, too. A penis with microposthia has exactly the same appearance as a partial circumcised penis. Two sporadic cases of male neonates with a natural partial circumcised foreskin presentation are reported. Microposthia can be baptized as congenital partial circumcision. It is not a harmful anomaly, but it can be associated with other anomalies of external genitalia. Congenital partial circumcision results in a tolerated esthetic appearance. It could reduce the risk of phimosis/paraphimosis and balanoposthitis, but it may result in long-term meatal stenosis.

Key words: Congenital partial circumcision, Deficient prepuce, Microposthia, Natural partial circumcision, Preputial anomaly.