OBJECTIVE: To identify the different indications, to analyze the conditions of realization of the circumcisions and to evaluate the results. PATIENTS AND METHOD: It is about a prospective survey study done in the operative room of the Tokoin teaching hospital (Lomé) and on a period of 12 months (15th June 2007 to 15th June 2008). It was about newborns and infants circumcised in the operative block by a pediatric surgeon. One hundred and thirty-four newborns and infants were circumcised during the period of our study. The medan of age was of 5.86 months (range: 1 to 27 months). RESULTS: One hundred and seven newborns and infants (79.85%) were circumcised for religious motive, 20 (14.92%) for hygiene motive, one (0.75%) for a lesion of the foreskin (burn of the foreskin by hot water), five (3.73%) for a phimosis and one (0.75%) for a paraphimosis. One hundred newborns and infants (74.63%) were circumcised under anesthesia by the fluothane associated to a caudal block, 29 (21.64%) were under local anesthesia (infiltration of anesthetic to the base of the penis) and five (3.73%) under general anesthesia by fluothane only. One hundred and two children (76.12%) were circumcised by the technique using the clamps and 32 (23.88%) by the technique using the Gomco clamp. CONCLUSION: The circumcision is a surgical act whose indications are variable in our surroundings. It is mainly practiced for a religious motive.
OBJECTIVE: To identify the different indications, to analyze the conditions of realization of the circumcisions and to evaluate the results. PATIENTS AND METHOD: It is about a prospective survey study done in the operative room of the Tokoin teaching hospital (Lomé) and on a period of 12 months (15th June 2007 to 15th June 2008). It was about newborns and infants circumcised in the operative block by a pediatric surgeon. One hundred and thirty-four newborns and infants were circumcised during the period of our study. The medan of age was of 5.86 months (range: 1 to 27 months). RESULTS: One hundred and seven newborns and infants (79.85%) were circumcised for religious motive, 20 (14.92%) for hygiene motive, one (0.75%) for a lesion of the foreskin (burn of the foreskin by hot water), five (3.73%) for a phimosis and one (0.75%) for a paraphimosis. One hundred newborns and infants (74.63%) were circumcised under anesthesia by the fluothane associated to a caudal block, 29 (21.64%) were under local anesthesia (infiltration of anesthetic to the base of the penis) and five (3.73%) under general anesthesia by fluothane only. One hundred and two children (76.12%) were circumcised by the technique using the clamps and 32 (23.88%) by the technique using the Gomco clamp. CONCLUSION: The circumcision is a surgical act whose indications are variable in our surroundings. It is mainly practiced for a religious motive.
Authors: Rosa Maria Macipe-Costa; Nuria García-Sanchez; Luis Andrés Gimeno-Feliu; Beatriz Navarra-Vicente; Juan Manuel Jiménez-Hereza; Isabel Moneo-Hernández; Jose Antonio Castillo-Laita; Pilar Lobera-Navaz Journal: Int J Public Health Date: 2013-11-09 Impact factor: 3.380