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TABLE 1
Complications Attributable to Newborn Circumcision Among Circumcised
and Noncircumcised Males During the Birth Hospitalization
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Complication (International
Classification of
Diseases,
Ninth Revision) |
Circumcised
N = 130 475
n
(%) |
Not Circumcised
N = 223 822
n (%) |
NNH
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| Hemorrhagic |
| Intraoperative bleeding
(998.1) |
209 (.16) |
30 (.01)* |
667
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| Hemorrhage control (399.8) |
12 (.0009) |
0* |
11 111
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| Suture of artery, vein, vessel (393.0, 393.1, 393.2) |
9 (.0007) |
0* |
14 286
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| Total |
230 (.18) |
30 (.01)* |
588 |
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| Injury
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| Penile repair (644.9) |
23 (.02) |
0* |
5 000 |
| Suture
penile laceration (644.1) |
29 (.02) |
0* |
5 000
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| Wound-penis (878.0, 878.1) |
3 (.002) |
1** |
50 000
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| Reconstruction of penis (644.4) |
1 (.0008) |
0 |
125 000
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| Total |
56 (.04) |
1* |
3 333 |
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| Infection
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| Cellulitis-penis
(607.2) |
2 (.0008) |
2 (.0009) |
NA
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| All complications |
287 (.22) |
33 (.01)* |
476 |
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*
P < .001;
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**
P < .10.
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