COMPLICATIONS OF FEMALE CIRCUMCISION IN NIGERIAN IGBOS
- 1 November 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Vol. 88 (11) , 1090-1093
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0528.1981.tb01758.x
Abstract
An analysis is made of 43 children and 15 adult female patients who presented with post-circumcision complications at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, between January 1973 and December 1980; 57 patients had been circumcised within 21 days of birth and one patient in the seventh month of her first pregnancy. Age of presentation varied with the severity of the symptoms: 21 children and 11 adults presented with varying degrees of labial occlusion, while 9 children and 4 adults had implantation dermoids. Urinary retention was the problem in 12 children and one adultKeywords
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