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Male circumcision: An overview

Author(s) -

Prosanta Kumar Bhattacharjee

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

african journal of paediatric surgery

Language(s) - Uncategorized

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.163

H-Index - 17

eISSN - 0189-6725

pISSN - 0974-5998

DOI - 10.4103/0189-6725.41634

Subject(s) - medicine , male circumcision , national library , medline , family medicine , gynecology , health services , library science , environmental health , population , political science , law , computer science

Circumcision is one of the common operations performed worldwide, for various reasons. Controversy exists as to whether circumcision is an operation. This literature review discusses the indications of circumcision, benefits and complications of circumcision, and alternatives to circumcision. Relevant articles on the benefits, complications, indications and alternative to circumcision from 1964 to 2005 were reviewed, from National Library of Medicine's Pubmed database. Additional articles were obtained from the reference lists of key articles and recent reviews.

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