Neonatal Circumcision: A Review of the World's Oldest and Most Controversial Operation

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 379-395

  Alanis, Mark C ^a   Lucidi, Richard S ^b  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; BICARBONATE; CLOBETASOL PROPIONATE; EMLA; LIDOCAINE; PARACETAMOL; PRILOCAINE; SUCROSE;

AFRICA; ANALGESIA; CIRCUMCISION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDYLOMA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHICS; EVOLUTION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; NERVE BLOCK; NEWBORN; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENIS CANCER; PHIMOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREPUCE; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VIRUS INFECTION; WART VIRUS;

CIRCUMCISION, MALE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PAIN; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 1942445368     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006254-200405000-00026     Document Type: Review

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