Systematic review of complications arising from male circumcision.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neonatal male circumcision is the most common procedure performed on paediatric patients (Simpson et al., 2014) and one of the most common surgical procedures in the world (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2012).

Methods

A search was conducted for articles about complications arising from male circumcision surgeries by entering the term 'male circumcision' into PubMed on June 16, 2020. Six thousand six hundred forty-one articles published from 1945 to 2020 were found. Seventy-eight articles were ultimately selected for the systematic review.

Results

The 78 articles selected from the literature search were entered into one of three tables. The first table includes 15 articles pertaining to chart reviews and cohort studies and report complication rates. The se

SUBMITTER: Iacob SI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8988744 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature