Female genital cutting: Types, motives and perineal damage in laboring Egyptian women

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 123-128

  Al Hussaini, Tarek K ^a,b  

^a Assiut University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^b NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Circumcision; Egypt; Female genital cutting; Mutilation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; EGYPT; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; LABOR; LACRIMAL FLUID; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PERINEUM INJURY; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VAGINA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EGYPT; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PERINEUM; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0037233137     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000069119     Document Type: Article

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