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Task Force on Circumcision, American Academy of Pediatrics (1999, reaffirmed 2005). Circumcision policy statement. Pediatrics, 103(3): 686-693.

Tobian AAR, et al. (2009). Male circumcision for the prevention of HSV-2 and HPV infections and syphilis. New England Journal of Medicine, 360(13): 1298-1309.

Singh-Grewal D, et al. (2005). Circumcision for the prevention of urinary tract infection in boys: A systematic review of randomised trials and observational studies. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 90(9): 853-858.

Malone P, Steinbrecher H (2007). Clinical review: Medical aspects of male circumcision. BMJ, 335(7631): 1206-1209.

Merrill CT, et al. (2008). Circumcisions performed in U.S. community hospitals, 2005. HCUP Statistical Brief #45, pp. 1-9. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Also available online: http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb45.jsp.

Siegfried N, et al. (2009). Male circumcision for prevention of heterosexual acquisition of HIV in men. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2).

Van Howe RS (2005). Effect of confounding in the association between circumcision status and urinary tract infection. Journal of Infection, 51(1): 59-68.

Other Works Consulted

Castellsague X, et al. (2002). Male circumcision, penile human papillomavirus infection, and cervical cancer in female partners. New England Journal of Medicine, 346(15): 1105-1112.

Fergusson DM, et al. (2006). Circumcision status and risk of sexually transmitted infection in young adult males: An analysis of a longitudinal birth cohort. Pediatrics, 118(5): 1971-1977. [Erratum in Pediatrics, 119(1): 227.]

Steadman B, Ellsworth P (2006). To circ or not to circ: Indications, risks, and alternatives to circumcision in the pediatric population with phimosis. Urologic Nursing, 26(3): 181-194.

Towers HM (2006). Circumcision. In FD Burg et al., eds. Current Pediatric Therapy, 18th ed., pp. 313-315. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.

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