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COMPLICATIONS OF FEMALE CIRCUMCISION IN NIGERIAN IGBOS
Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1981.tb01758.x
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 88, Issue 11, pages 1090–1093, November 1981
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How to Cite
Egwuatu, V. E. and Agugua, N. E. N. (1981), COMPLICATIONS OF FEMALE CIRCUMCISION IN NIGERIAN IGBOS. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 88: 1090–1093. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1981.tb01758.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 23 AUG 2005
- Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
- Received March 3, 1981/Accepted July 21, 1981
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Summary
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 adult