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|DOI=10.1002/bjs.1800801005 | |DOI=10.1002/bjs.1800801005 | ||
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}}</ref> In cases of adult circumcision, erections may cause [[wound dehiscence]] (splitting open of the surgical wound) thereby increasing the risk of infection.<ref name="kaplan1983">{{REFjournal | |||
|last=Kaplan | |||
|first=George W. | |||
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|title=Complications of circumcision | |||
|journal=Urol Clin N Amer | |||
|date=1983 | |||
|volume=10 | |||
|issue=08 | |||
|pages=543-9 | |||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/kaplan/#n62 | |||
|accessdate=2020-06-15 | |||
}}</ref> | }}</ref> | ||
==Ritual circumcision== | |||
Professor [[L. Emmett Holt]] (1913) reported 41 cases of tuberculosis in ritually circumcised boys who had been infected by tubercular [[Mohel| mohels]], of whom 16 had died at the time of writing.<ref>{{REFjournal | Professor [[L. Emmett Holt]] (1913) reported 41 cases of tuberculosis in ritually circumcised boys who had been infected by tubercular [[Mohel| mohels]], of whom 16 had died at the time of writing.<ref>{{REFjournal | ||