title: Circumcision complications and indications for ritual recircumcision--clinical experience and review of the literature.
abstract: The aim of this work is to review the complications of circumcision in the literature of medicine and Jewish law. One of the problems discussed in Jewish law concerns a remnant of the prepuce covering the corona, thus causing the circumcision to be incomplete. There is a controversy in Jewish law sources regarding the definition of the corona--whether it is all the glans penis, or only the cord surrounding the base of the glans. During the last 8 years, our center has been consulted about recircumcision for 60 children and about treatment for another group who had developed complications due to circumcision, often as a result of "nonprofessional" circumcision.
mesh_terms: D001633:Bible; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002944:Circumcision, Male / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007599:Judaism; D008297:Male; D012086:Reoperation