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|journal=BMJ
|location=
|date=1993-01-02
|volume=306
|issue=6869
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1676363/pdf/bmj00001-0005.pdf
|archived=
|quote=A better understanding of the normal physiology, developmental anatomy, and pathology of the prepuce could prevent the removal of thousands of normal foreskins over the next 20 years. |pubmedID= 8435567
|pubmedCID=1676363
|DOI=10.1136/bmj.306.6869.1
|accessdate=2021-09-05
}}</ref> Williams et al. (1993) complained that most of the 30,000 circumcisions that were being done in the UK were on boys under 15. They reported that of 69 boys referred by GPs, 29 had a healthy retractile foreskin, 30 had a healthy non-retractile foreskin, and only 9 had a phimosis requiring circumcision.<ref name="williams1993"> </ref>