Evaluation of epidemiology, safety, and complications of male circumcision using conventional dissection surgery: experience at one center

Open Access Journal of Urology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-87

  Moslemi, Mohammad Kazem ^a   Abedinzadeh, Mehdi ^b   Aghaali, Mohammad ^a  

^a QOM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b RAFSANJAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Complication; Conventional dissection surgery; Infant; Male circumcision; Meatus; Neonatal; Phimosis; Religious; Ritual

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; BALANOPOSTHITIS; CHILD; CIRCUMCISION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISSECTION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHIMOSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELIGION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL APPROACH; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 79957801104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OAJU.S17913     Document Type: Article

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