Benefits of newborn circumcision: Is Europe ignoring medical evidence?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 258-260

  Schoen, Edgar J ^a,b  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMCISION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EUROPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYGIENE; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NOTE; PENIS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; URINARY TRACT CANCER;

EID: 0030864087     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.77.3.258     Document Type: Note

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