Long term health consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Maturitas

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 48-51

  Reisel, Dan ^a   Creighton, Sarah M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Female Genital Mutilation; FGM; Long term health complications

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; AFRICA; ANXIETY; ASIA; BLEEDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CESAREAN SECTION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION; FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION TYPE I; FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION TYPE II; FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION TYPE III; FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION TYPE IV; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FEMALE SEXUAL FUNCTION INDEX; GANGRENE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABOR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRATION; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PERINEUM INJURY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SEPTICEMIA; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SURVIVOR; TETANUS; URETHRA FISTULA; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; VAGINITIS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOUND INFECTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

AFRICA; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84917677699     PISSN: 03785122     EISSN: 18734111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2014.10.009     Document Type: Review

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