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

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. We report the case of a 9-year-old boy who underwent a total amputation of the glans...

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Autores principales: Sow, Ousmane, Ondo, Cyrille Ze, Sarr, Alioune, Sine, Babacar, Gassama, Cheikh Becaye, Ndoye, Alain Khassim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Trauma and Reconstruction
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8531556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34712593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2021.101905
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author Sow, Ousmane
Ondo, Cyrille Ze
Sarr, Alioune
Sine, Babacar
Gassama, Cheikh Becaye
Ndoye, Alain Khassim
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description 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. We report the case of a 9-year-old boy who underwent a total amputation of the glans after a circumcision in a pharmacy by an unqualified agent. A meatoplasty was performed and the postoperative course were uneventful.
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spelling pubmed-85315562021-10-27 Total penile glans amputation following circumcision: A case report of a dramatic complication Sow, Ousmane Ondo, Cyrille Ze Sarr, Alioune Sine, Babacar Gassama, Cheikh Becaye Ndoye, Alain Khassim Urol Case Rep Trauma and Reconstruction 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. We report the case of a 9-year-old boy who underwent a total amputation of the glans after a circumcision in a pharmacy by an unqualified agent. A meatoplasty was performed and the postoperative course were uneventful. Elsevier 2021-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8531556/ /pubmed/34712593 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2021.101905 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Total penile glans amputation following circumcision: A case report of a dramatic complication
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title_full Total penile glans amputation following circumcision: A case report of a dramatic complication
title_fullStr Total penile glans amputation following circumcision: A case report of a dramatic complication
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topic Trauma and Reconstruction
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8531556/
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