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Circumcision-related tragedies seen in children at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana
BACKGROUND: Circumcision is a common minor surgical procedure and it is performed to a varying extent across countries and religions. Despite being a minor surgical procedure, major complications may result from it. In Ghana, although commonly practiced, circumcision-related injuries have not been w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101822/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27825332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12894-016-0183-1 |
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author | Appiah, Kwaku Addai Arhin Gyasi-Sarpong, Christian Kofi Azorliade, Roland Aboah, Ken Laryea, Dennis Odai Otu-Boateng, Kwaku Baah-Nyamekye, Kofi Maison, Patrick Opoku Manu Arthur, Douglas Antwi, Isaac Opoku Frimpong-Twumasi, Benjamin Yenli, Edwin Mwintiereh Togbe, Samuel Kodzo Amoah, George |
author_facet | Appiah, Kwaku Addai Arhin Gyasi-Sarpong, Christian Kofi Azorliade, Roland Aboah, Ken Laryea, Dennis Odai Otu-Boateng, Kwaku Baah-Nyamekye, Kofi Maison, Patrick Opoku Manu Arthur, Douglas Antwi, Isaac Opoku Frimpong-Twumasi, Benjamin Yenli, Edwin Mwintiereh Togbe, Samuel Kodzo Amoah, George |
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description | BACKGROUND: Circumcision is a common minor surgical procedure and it is performed to a varying extent across countries and religions. Despite being a minor surgical procedure, major complications may result from it. In Ghana, although commonly practiced, circumcision-related injuries have not been well documented. This study is to describe the scope of circumcision-related injuries seen at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana. METHODS: The study was conducted at the Urology Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi. Consecutive cases of circumcision-related injuries seen at the unit over an 18 month period were identified and included in the study. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire. Data was entered and analysed using SPSS version 16. Charts and tables were generated using Microsoft Excel. RESULTS: A total of 72 cases of circumcision-related injuries were recorded during the 18 month period. Urethrocutaneous fistula was the commonest injury recorded, accounting for 77.8 % of cases. Other injuries recorded were glans amputations (6.9 %); iatrogenic hypospadias (5.6 %), and epidermal inclusion cysts (2.8 %). The majority of children were circumcised in health facilities (75 %) and nurses were the leading providers (77.8 %). The majority of circumcisions were conducted in the neonatal period (94.7 %). CONCLUSION: Circumcision-related injuries commonly occurred in the neonatal period. Most of the injuries happened in health facilities. The most common injury recorded was urethrocutaneous fistula but the most tragic was penile amputation. There is the need for education and training of providers to minimise circumcision-related injuries in Ghana. |
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spelling | pubmed-51018222016-11-10 Circumcision-related tragedies seen in children at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana Appiah, Kwaku Addai Arhin Gyasi-Sarpong, Christian Kofi Azorliade, Roland Aboah, Ken Laryea, Dennis Odai Otu-Boateng, Kwaku Baah-Nyamekye, Kofi Maison, Patrick Opoku Manu Arthur, Douglas Antwi, Isaac Opoku Frimpong-Twumasi, Benjamin Yenli, Edwin Mwintiereh Togbe, Samuel Kodzo Amoah, George BMC Urol Research Article BACKGROUND: Circumcision is a common minor surgical procedure and it is performed to a varying extent across countries and religions. Despite being a minor surgical procedure, major complications may result from it. In Ghana, although commonly practiced, circumcision-related injuries have not been well documented. This study is to describe the scope of circumcision-related injuries seen at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana. METHODS: The study was conducted at the Urology Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi. Consecutive cases of circumcision-related injuries seen at the unit over an 18 month period were identified and included in the study. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire. Data was entered and analysed using SPSS version 16. Charts and tables were generated using Microsoft Excel. RESULTS: A total of 72 cases of circumcision-related injuries were recorded during the 18 month period. Urethrocutaneous fistula was the commonest injury recorded, accounting for 77.8 % of cases. Other injuries recorded were glans amputations (6.9 %); iatrogenic hypospadias (5.6 %), and epidermal inclusion cysts (2.8 %). The majority of children were circumcised in health facilities (75 %) and nurses were the leading providers (77.8 %). The majority of circumcisions were conducted in the neonatal period (94.7 %). CONCLUSION: Circumcision-related injuries commonly occurred in the neonatal period. Most of the injuries happened in health facilities. The most common injury recorded was urethrocutaneous fistula but the most tragic was penile amputation. There is the need for education and training of providers to minimise circumcision-related injuries in Ghana. BioMed Central 2016-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5101822/ /pubmed/27825332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12894-016-0183-1 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Appiah, Kwaku Addai Arhin Gyasi-Sarpong, Christian Kofi Azorliade, Roland Aboah, Ken Laryea, Dennis Odai Otu-Boateng, Kwaku Baah-Nyamekye, Kofi Maison, Patrick Opoku Manu Arthur, Douglas Antwi, Isaac Opoku Frimpong-Twumasi, Benjamin Yenli, Edwin Mwintiereh Togbe, Samuel Kodzo Amoah, George Circumcision-related tragedies seen in children at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana |
title | Circumcision-related tragedies seen in children at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana |
title_full | Circumcision-related tragedies seen in children at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana |
title_fullStr | Circumcision-related tragedies seen in children at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana |
title_full_unstemmed | Circumcision-related tragedies seen in children at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana |
title_short | Circumcision-related tragedies seen in children at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana |
title_sort | circumcision-related tragedies seen in children at the komfo anokye teaching hospital, kumasi, ghana |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101822/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27825332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12894-016-0183-1 |
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