Circumcision in babies and children with plastibell technique: An easy procedure with minimal complications - Experience of 316 cases

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 175-180

  Jan, Iftikhar Ahmad ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Age; Circumcision; Complications; Method

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASEPSIS; CHILD; CIRCUMCISION; CONSENSUS; EVALUATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MOSLEM; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PLASTIBELL TECHNIQUE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 4644268442     PISSN: 1682024X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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