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Non-therapeutic infant male circumcision

Evidence, ethics, and international law perspectives

Abdullah Alkhenizan and Kossay Elabd
Saudi Medical Journal September 2016, 37 (9) 941-947; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.9.14519
Abdullah Alkhenizan
From the Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinic, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
FCFP, MSc
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Kossay Elabd
From the Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinic, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MRCGP
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vol. 37 no. 9 941-947
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.9.14519
PubMed 
27570848

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received February 4, 2016
  • Accepted June 19, 2016
  • Published online September 1, 2016.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Abdullah Alkhenizan, FCFP, MSc⇑ and
  2. Kossay Elabd, MRCGP
  1. From the Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinic, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Abdullah Alkhenizan, Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinic, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: alkhenizan{at}hotmail.com
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