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'''Complete penile amputation''' is perhaps the most tragic of all of the many complications of non-therapeutic infant [[circumcision]]. It refers to the total, complete ablation<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/ablation
|title=Ablation
|publisher=The Free Dictionary
|website=
|date=2012
|accessdate=2022-02-14
}}</ref> or destruction of the [[penis]] by a surgical mishap. Penile ablation is said to be an extremely rare condition in advanced nations where circumcision is performed by trained medical doctors, but it is more common in developing nations where traditional circumcision is the usual practice.<ref>{{REFjournal
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|title=Circumcision-related tragedies seen in children at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana
|journal=BMC Urol
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|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101822/
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The former practice was to do "feminizing genitoplasty" or in other words, a sex-change operation on an infant boy,<ref>{{REFjournal
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|last2=Rock
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|title=Total ablation of the penis after circumcision with electrocautery: a method of management and long-term followup
|journal=J Urol
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|pages=799-801
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/gearhart1/
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|last=Diamond
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|title=Sex reassignment at birth. Long-term review and clinical implications
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|title=Complete penile amputation during ritual neonatal circumcision and successful replantation using postoperative leech therapy
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{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Amputation]]
{{REF}}