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A '''Gomco clamp''', otherwise known as a '''Yellen clamp''',<ref>{{REFjournal
| last=Warner |first=E, Strashin E. | firstlast2=Strashin | coauthorsfirst2=E. | date=November 1981, November | title=Benefits and risks of circumcision | journal=Can Med Assoc J | volume=125 | issue=9 | pages=967ā76, 992 | url= | quote= | pubmedID=7037142 | pubmedCID=1862490 | DOI= | accessdate=
}} </ref><ref name="gelbaum">{{REFjournal
| last=Gelbaum | first=I. | coauthors= | date=1993 | title=Circumcision. Refining a traditional surgical technique | journal=J Nurse Midwifery | volume=38 | issue=2 Suppl | pages=18Sā30S | url= | quote= | pubmedID=8387102 | DOI=10.1016/0091-2182(93)90093-V | accessdate=
}}</ref> is a specialized clamp for performing circumcisions. It was invented by Hiram S. Yellen and Aaron Goldstein in 1934-1935.<ref>{{REFbook
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}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
| last=Alanis MC, Lucidi RS | first=M.C. |last2=Lucidi | coauthorsfirst2=R.S. | date=May 2004, May | title=Neonatal circumcision: a review of the world's oldest and most controversial operation | journal=Obstet Gynecol Surv | volume=59 | issue=5 | pages=379-95 | url= | quote= | pubmedID=15097799 | DOI=10.1097/00006254-200405000-00026 | accessdate=
}}</ref> Gomco stands for the <u>Go</u>ldstein <u>M</u>edical <u>Co</u>mpany, the original manufacturer of the clamp.<ref name="gelbaum"/> In a 1998 study, it was the preferred circumcision technique of 67% of US physicians.<ref>{{REFjournal
| last=Stang HJ, Snellman LW | first=H.J. |last2=Snellman | coauthorsfirst2=L.W. | date=June 1998, June | title=Circumcision practice patterns in the United States | journal=Pediatrics | volume=101 | issue=6 | pages=E5 | url=http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/101/6/e5 | quote= | pubmedID=9606247 | DOI=10.1542/peds.101.6.e5 | accessdate=
}}</ref>
The technique is as follows:<ref>{{REFjournal
| last=Peleg | first=David | coauthorsfirst2=Ann |last2=Steiner | date=1998 | title=The Gomco Circumcision: Common Problems and Solutions | journal=American Family Physician | volume=58 | issue=4 | pages=891-8 | url=http://www.aafp.org/link_out?pmid=9767725 | pubmedID=9767725 | quote= | accessdate=
}}</ref>
# Anesthetic should be applied (though it is a historically recent addition, dating only to approximately the early 1990s).
From a 1935 article<ref>{{REFjournal
| last=Hiram | first=Yellen | coauthors= | date=1935 | title=Bloodless circumcision of the newborn | journal=American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | volume=30 | issue= | pages=146-7 | url=http://www.historyofcircumcision.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=43#yel | quote= | accessdate=2015-08-13
}}</ref> by Dr. Hiram Yellen, one of the two inventors (with Aaron Goldstein) of the Gomco Clamp.