Male circumcision: integrating tradition and medical evidence.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Management of Severe Buried Penis With Bilateral Hernia.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2026
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2. Evaluation of the Knowledge Level and Attitudes of Family Physicians Regarding Circumcision: A Cross-sectional Study.Rwanda journal of medicine and health sciences · 2026
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3. Clinical outcomes of circumcisions and prevalence of complications of male circumcisions: A five-year retrospective analysis at a teaching hospital in Ghana.PLOS global public health · 2025
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Corrections and comments

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  Unnecessary full-thickness skin grafting for routine circumcision: when ignorance is far from bliss.2013

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

Abstract

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