Abstract
SummaryThe acute complications of female circumcision were haemorrhage, infection and vulval trauma, and the late complications urinary tract and genital tract infection, defloration trauma, obstetric complications and psycho-sexual problems. Postcoital trauma and haemorrhage, vulval epidermoid cysts, infected Bartholin's gland cysts and vulval granulation and fibromata were common. Perineal injury during labour was a frequent obstetric problem of circumcised patients delivering at home. About 7 per cent of the total obstetric and gynaecological operations carried out in Khartoum North hospital were to treat direct complications of female circumcision.
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