Benefits of newborn circumcision: is Europe ignoring medical evidence? Commentary
Open Access
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- review article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 77 (3) , 258-260
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.77.3.258
Abstract
Phimosis, balanoposthitis, and difficulty of ensuring adequate genital hygiene in uncircumcised boys have been best described in the European literature.1-4 US anticircumcision groups claim that genital hygiene can easily be maintained as the foreskin naturally separates, but, in reality, genital hygiene in uncircumcised boys has been shown to be poor, even in British and Scandinavian middle class schoolboys.1 2Keywords
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