Female Genital Cutting: Clinical and Cultural Guidelines

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 272-279

  Nour, Nawal M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEATH; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC INFECTION; HUMAN; LACERATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SEPSIS; SHOCK; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; COUNSELING; CULTURE; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; ISLAM; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; REOPERATION;

EID: 1642320749     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.OGX.0000118939.19371.AF     Document Type: Review

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