circumcision: is it an insignificant act?

ABSTRACT

The circumcision is one of the most frequent interventions practised to a male child; it is defined as surgical removal of the prepuce for a religious or traditional reasons. The surgical removal of the prepuce, is carried out either in emergency in case of paraphimosis, or normally case of phimosis. The complications of the circumcision are frequent and varied; haemorrhage and infection are described as early complications while generaly the urological complications are known as late complications. Those are even more frequent when the circumcision is performed in a traditional way or by non professional [paramedical agents, hajjamas...] without a rigorous asepsis and in unfavourable material conditions. If the ritual circumcision is uncertain, the circumcision performed in surgical conditions remains a benign intervention