Safety of over Twelve Hundred Infant Male Circumcisions Using the Mogen Clamp in Kenya

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Young, Marisa R ^a   Bailey, Robert C ^a,b   Odoyo June, Elijah ^b   Irwin, Tracy E ^c   Obiero, Walter ^b   Ongong'a, Dedan O ^d   Badia, Jacinta A ^e   Agot, Kawango ^f   Nordstrom, Sherry K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NYANZA REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SOCIETY   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^d New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital   (Kenya)

^e CARE International   (Kenya)

^f IMPACT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CIRCUMCISION; CLAMP; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MOGEN CLAMP; NEWBORN; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; WOUND INFECTION;

CIRCUMCISION, MALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84867630224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047395     Document Type: Article

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