COMPLICATIONS OF FEMALE CIRCUMCISION IN NIGERIAN IGBOS

An analysis is made of 43 children and 15 adult female patients who presented with post‐circumcision complications at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, between January 1973 and December 1980; 57 patients had been circumcised within 21 days of birth and one patient in the seventh month of her first pregnancy. Age of presentation varied with the severity of the symptoms: 21 children and 11 adults presented with varying degrees of labial occlusion, while 9 children and 4 adults had implantation dermoids. Urinary retention was the problem in 12 children and one adult Copyright © 1981, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved