Male neonatal circumcision: Indications, controversies and complications

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 461-467

  Hutcheson, Joel C ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; AVULSION INJURY; BLEEDING; CANCER RISK; CHORDEE; CIRCUMCISION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; MALE; NECROSIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SURGERY; PENIS CANCER; PHIMOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; URETHRA FISTULA; URETHRA STENOSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADHESIONS; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PHIMOSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 4143094747     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ucl.2004.04.011     Document Type: Review

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