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Circumcision risks

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Complication rates: Add text and citation.
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Patel (1966) reported a complication rate of 55% in a series at Kingston General Hospital in Ontariɔ.<refname="patel1966">
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Williams & Kapila (1993) reviewed the complications of circumcision. They estimated a complication rate of 2 to 10 percenʈ<refname="williams1993">{{REFjournal
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Lau ''et al''. (2018) used the Utah All-Payer Claims Database to determine the incidence of circumcision and the percentage of complications for the state of Utah. The authors reported an incidence of neonatal circumcision of 29 percent and an incidence of complications of 11.5 percenʈ<ref name="lau2018">{{REFjournal
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|title=Identification of circumcision complications using a regional claims database
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|journal=Societies for Pediatric Urology
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