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MeSH Heading: Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans
Tree Number(s): C12.100.500.494.136.500; C12.200.294.494.136.500
Unique ID: D052798
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D052798
Scope Note: An atrophic and sclerotic condition of the head of the PENIS, glans penis. Sometimes it leads to stenosis and occasionally obliteration of the external meatal orifice.
Entry Term(s): Kraurosis Penis
Previous Indexing: Balanitis (1967-2006)
Public MeSH Note: 2007; see BALANITIS 1963-2006
History Note: 2007; use BALANITIS 1963-2006
Date Established: 2007/01/01
Date of Entry: 2006/07/05
Revision Date: 2021/06/30

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans MeSH Descriptor Data 2025