RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Circumcision no longer a "routine" surgical procedure
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 1873
OP 1876
VO 152
IS 11
A1 LeBourdais, E.
YR 1995
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/152/11/1873.abstract
AB Nonmedical circumcision can no longer be considered routine in a new era of children's rights and more careful scrutiny of the medical necessity of surgical procedures. Although the minor procedure has been practised for centuries, custom and cultural factors may have had greater influence on the incidence of circumcision than the prevalence of problems such as penile cancer and urinary-tract infection that it was thought to prevent.