Objective In this study, thermocautery, plastic clamping, and conventional (open surgical) circumcision techniques were compared in terms of their complications. Methods Male patients who underwent circumcisions between May 2014 and May 2015 in two separate pediatric surgery clinics were retrospectively analyzed using the hospital registry system. These patients were evaluated in terms of age...

Increased mortality in children with mild vitamin A deficiency. Impact of vitamin A supplementa-tion on childhood mortality. A randomised controlled community trial. et al. EVectiveness of vitamin A supple-mentation in the control of young child morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Vitamin A-fortified monosodium glutamate and health, growth, and survival of children: a controlled fi...

PURPOSE Literature pertaining to surgical disclosure to the pediatric patient is lacking. We hypothesized parents would find it difficult to disclose urologic surgery to a child. MATERIALS AND METHODS Parents of patients <5 years old undergoing urologic surgery were contacted for telephone survey. Parents were asked about future plans of surgical disclosure, comfort with disclosure, and any s...

BACKGROUND To investigate the changing circumcision rate in South Korea in the last decade and to propose underlying causes for this change, in the context of the present fluctuating world-wide trends in circumcision. METHODS From 2009 to 2011, 3,296 South Korean males (or their parents) aged 0-64 years were asked about their circumcision status, their age at circumcision, and their informati...

BACKGROUND We examined the effects and cost-effectiveness of 4 strategies of circumcision in a resource-rich setting (Australia) in a population of men who have sex with men (MSM). METHOD We created a dynamic mathematical transmission model and performed an economic analysis to estimate the costs, outcomes, and cost-effectiveness of different strategies, compared with those of the status quo....

BACKGROUND The World Health Organisation recommended the scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as an additional HIV prevention method in 2007 and several countries with high HIV prevalence rates including Zimbabwe have since adopted the procedure. Since then researchers have been preoccupied with establishing the level of knowledge and acceptability of circumcision in communiti...

OBJECTIVE Genital neonatal herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection was observed in a series of neonates after traditional Jewish ritual circumcision. The objective of this study was to describe neonate genital HSV-1 infection after ritual circumcision and investigate the association between genital HSV-1 after circumcision and the practice of the traditional circumcision. METHODS Eight ...

Egyptian mummies and wall carvings offer some of the earliest recorded history of circumcision dating over 15,000 years ago. Ritualistic circumcision has been carried out in West Africa for over 5,000 years and in the Middle East for at least 3,000 years (Warner & Strashin, 1981). Muslims incorporated ritualistic circumcisions as a pubertal rite of passage into manhood among older boys. The tra...

Van Howe and Storm’s paper is commendable for asking valid questions regarding the scientific evidence upon which circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy is based.1 The paper however gives no real practical suggestions as to what the way forward should be regarding the already rolled out circumcision programs in Africa. Its position that the current circumcision programs amount to a waste of...