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|DOI=10.1002/bjs.1800801005
|accessdate=2022-01-08
}}</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.
|author-link=
|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>
==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