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COMPLICATIONS OF FEMALE CIRCUMCISION IN NIGERIAN IGBOS
Author(s) -
Egwuatu V. E.,
Agugua N. E. N.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1981.tb01758.x
Subject(s) - medicine , urinary retention , presentation (obstetrics) , pediatrics , pregnancy , occlusion , urinary system , obstetrics , gynecology , surgery , genetics , biology
Summary An analysis is made of 43 children and 15 adult female patients who presented with post‐circumcision complications at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, between January 1973 and December 1980; 57 patients had been circumcised within 21 days of birth and one patient in the seventh month of her first pregnancy. Age of presentation varied with the severity of the symptoms: 21 children and 11 adults presented with varying degrees of labial occlusion, while 9 children and 4 adults had implantation dermoids. Urinary retention was the problem in 12 children and one adult