Incomplete bladder emptying due to labial fusion in a pubertal girl: A delayed consequence of female circumcision

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 372-373

  Awang, Nor Azlina ^a   Viegas, Claire ^b   Viegas, Osborn A C ^b  

^a HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLADDER DISTENSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLITORIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; IMPAIRED BLADDER EMPTYING; LABIAL FUSION; MIGRATION; PERINEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINA; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERINEUM; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY RETENTION;

EID: 4444362218     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2004.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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