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Total penile amputation following ritual circumcision: A case report of a devastating complication

Urology Case Reports
Circumcision is among the most commonly performed surgical procedures in boys. In Morocco, this practice is often carried out by traditional practitioners, exposing patients to potentially catastrophic complications that are challenging to manage.
Saad Andaloussi, Zakarya Alami Hassani, Saad Annattah, Omar Dalero, Aziz Elmadi   +4 more
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The when and how of male circumcision and the risk of HIV: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of two HIV surveys from Guinea-Bissau

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016
INTRODUCTION: male circumcision (MC) reduces the risk of HIV, and this risk reduction may be modified by socio-cultural factors such as the timing and method (medical and traditional) of circumcision.
Dlama Nggida Rasmussen, Christian Wejse, Olav Larsen, Zacarias Da Silva, Peter Aaby, Morten Sodemann   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
wiley   +1 more source

Total penile glans amputation following circumcision: A case report of a dramatic complication

Urology Case Reports, 2022
Circumcision is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures. As traditional ritual circumcisions are still practiced in the community, in Senegal the majority of circumcisions are performed in hospitals.
Ousmane Sow, Cyrille Ze Ondo, Alioune Sarr, Babacar Sine, Cheikh Becaye Gassama, Alain Khassim Ndoye   +5 more
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Multifactorial determinants of male genital measurements: Correlations of stretched penile length and anogenital distance with anthropometric parameters

Andrology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The stretched penile length is recognized as the most reliable measure of true penile size, this fact is not widely acknowledged, and societal myths often associate penile length with other anthropometric measurements. While markers of prenatal androgen exposure, such as anogenital distance and the second‐to‐fourth digit ratio (2D ...
Coşkun Kaya, Mehmet Erhan Aydın, Aykut Aykaç, Sevda Sungur, Murat Dursun, Ateş Kadıoğlu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rare Bleeding Disorders and Bleeding Disorder of Unknown Cause: Current Understanding and Recent Developments

Haemophilia, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rare bleeding disorders (RBDs) represent a diverse group of inherited conditions involving coagulation factors or platelets. These conditions, such as Glanzmann thrombasthenia (GT) or severe coagulation factor deficiencies, are uncommon. In contrast, bleeding disorder of unknown cause (BDUC) is a diagnosis of exclusion without an identifiable ...
Alessandro Casini, Robert Klamroth, Bauke Haisma, Dino Mehic, Saskia E. M. Schols   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Cut: Generative Refusal and the Reimagining of Jewish Affiliation in Contemporary Israel

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Jewish‐Israeli society, circumcision (brit milah) carries far‐reaching significance, symbolizing both the covenant between god and the Jewish people and serving as a key marker of communal affiliation and cultural continuity. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with Jewish‐Israeli parents who have chosen not to circumcise their sons and using ...
Nina Rageth
wiley   +1 more source

The potential impact of male circumcision on HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

, 2006
\ud A randomized controlled trial (RCT) has shown that male circumcision (MC) reduces sexual transmission of HIV from women to men by 60% (32%-76%; 95% CI) offering an intervention of proven efficacy for reducing the sexual spread of HIV.
Getz, Wayne M., Auvert, Bertran, Brian G Williams, Catherine Hankins, Bertran Auvert, Lloyd-Smith, James, O., Hankins Catherine, Hargrove John, Lloyd-Smith, James O, Lloyd-Smith, James,, Wayne M Getz, Getz, Wayne, M., Isabelle de Zoysa, Christopher Dye, Lloyd-Smith, James O., Auvert Bertran, de Zoysa, Isabelle, John Hargrove, Williams, Brian,, Williams, Brian G., Getz, Wayne M, James O Lloyd-Smith, Eleanor Gouws, Dye, Christopher, Williams, Brian, G., Dye Christopher, James O. Lloyd-smith, Williams Brian G, Williams, Brian G, Hankins, Catherine, Brian G. Williams, Lloyd-Smith James O, Gouws Eleanor, de Zoysa Isabelle, Hargrove, John, Getz, Wayne,, Gouws, Eleanor, Getz Wayne M   +37 more
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Video Versus Traditional Informed Consent for Neonatal Circumcision

, 2010
To determine if videotapes about newborn circumcision would be superior to traditional physician 'informed consent' discussion for maternal knowledge, satisfaction and perception of provider ...
Sage, Allyson C, Calvert, Emma E, Byrd, Robert S, Chantry, Caroline J   +3 more
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