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Late complications of circumcision in Iran

Overview of attention for article published in Pediatric Surgery International, April 2006
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (82nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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Title
Late complications of circumcision in Iran
Published in
Pediatric Surgery International, April 2006
DOI 10.1007/s00383-006-1672-1
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Authors

Rooh-Allah Yegane, Abdol-Reza Kheirollahi, Nour-Allah Salehi, Mohammad Bashashati, Jamal-Aldin Khoshdel, Mina Ahmadi

Abstract

Today, circumcision is the most commonly performed surgical procedure worldwide. Early and late complications may occur due to circumcision. To find the prevalence of late complications of circumcision, we studied 3,205 elementary-school boys aged 6-12 years in 2002. All of them were Iranian and Muslim. Nearly 3,125 of the boys have been circumcised. Most of the boys (2,214 boys) had been circumcised after 2 years of age. Moreover, most of them were operated by traditional circumcisers (43.49%). Late complications (7.39%) were reported in 231 boys. Excessive residual foreskin was seen in 113 children (3.6%). Excessive removal of skin was detected in 42 boys (1.3%), meatal stenosis in 29 boys (0.9%), granoloma in 22 boys (0.7%), penile rotation in 17 boys (0.5%), and 8 boys had secondary chordee (0.2%). The complication rate was not different between the neonatal circumcision and older groups. We suggested that circumcision should only be performed in medical institutions by suitably trained specialists.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 32 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 6%
United Kingdom 1 3%
Unknown 29 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 25%
Student > Bachelor 6 19%
Researcher 3 9%
Student > Postgraduate 3 9%
Other 2 6%
Other 5 16%
Unknown 5 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 18 56%
Psychology 2 6%
Philosophy 1 3%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 7 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 September 2023.
All research outputs
#5,360,927
of 25,450,869 outputs
Outputs from Pediatric Surgery International
#111
of 1,393 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,753
of 84,708 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Pediatric Surgery International
#2
of 7 outputs
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