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Several papers critical of phimosis diagnosis practice in the UK were published in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Rickwood & Walker (1989) reported that in the Mersey region (northwest England) "many boys are circumcised for of the prepuce rather than for true phimosis and that in consequence some two-thirds of the operations are unnecessary."<ref name="rickwood1989">{{REFjournal
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|title=Is phimosis overdiagnosed in boys and are too many circumcisions performed in consequence?
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|journal=Ann R Coll Surg Engl
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|date=1989-09
|volume=71
|issue=5
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|pages=275-7
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/rickwood2/
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