{"id":162,"date":"2012-03-05T05:10:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T05:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/?page_id=162"},"modified":"2012-07-16T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T16:55:13","slug":"meatal-stenosis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/facts-and-myths\/meatal-stenosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Meatal Stenosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urethral meatal stenosis or urethral stricture is a narrowing (stenosis) of the opening of the urethra at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.circinfosite.com\/37.html\">external meatus<\/a> (pronounced \/mi\u02d0\u02c8e\u026at\u0259s\/), thus constricting the opening through which urine leaves the body from the urinary bladder.<\/p>\n<p>Studies have indicated that male circumcision contributes to the development of urethral stricture. Among circumcised males, reported incidence figures include 0.9%,[1] 2.8%,[2] 7.29%,[3] 9-10%,[4] and 11%.[5] <strong>In Van Howe&#8217;s study, all cases of meatal stenosis were among circumcised boys.<\/strong>[3] When the meatus is not covered by the foreskin, it can rub against urine soaked diapers resulting in inflammation and mechanical trauma.[4] Meatal stenosis may also be caused by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.circinfosite.com\/37.html\">ischemia<\/a> resulting from damage to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.circinfosite.com\/37.html\">frenular<\/a> artery during circumcision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16429216\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16429216<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urethral meatal stenosis or urethral stricture is a narrowing (stenosis) of the opening of the urethra at the\u00a0external meatus (pronounced \/mi\u02d0\u02c8e\u026at\u0259s\/), thus constricting the opening through which urine leaves the body from the urinary bladder. Studies have indicated that male&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":438,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions\/540"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}