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Title Female Genital Mutilation among Edo People: The complications and pattern of presentation at a Pediatric Surgery Unit, Benin City
Full text http://ajol.info/index.php/ajrh/article/view/55650
Date 2010
Author(s) DO Osifo; I Evbuomwan
Abstract This prospective study on female genital mutilation among Edo people was based on female children and parents who presented on account of it at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria, between January 2002 and December 2007. During the period, 51 female children aged 10 days and 18 years presented with complications following genital mutilation. Twenty-nine were brought by their parents for mutilation while 67 parents interviewed believed strongly on female genital mutilation with 47 mothers mutilated. Religio-cultural and superstitious beliefs were the main indications and the type of mutilation ranged from excision of clitoridal tip in 10 (19.6%) children to complete excision of the clitoris, labia minora and inner layer of majora in 7 (13.7%). Complications ranged from clitoridal cyst formation in 21 (41.2%) to life threatening infections with one mortality due to tetanus infection (Afr J Reprod Health 2009; 13[1]:17-25).
Subject(s) Female, Circumcision, Mutilation, Complications, Presentation
Language en
Publisher African Journal of Reproductive Health
Type of publication Peer-reviewed Article
Format application/pdf
Source African Journal of Reproductive Health; Vol 13, No 1 (2009)
Rights Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by Women's Health and Action Research Centre
Repository Africa - African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
Added to C-A: 2010-08-26;09:03:12