Cerrahpaşa Medical Journal
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İÜ Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi Kadın Hastalıkları ve Doğum Anabilim Dalı

Cerrahpasa Med J 1998; 29: 107-110
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Background.­ Female genital mutilation is based on socio­cultural and traditional patterns dating back to more than two thousand years in mainly subsaharan Africa, the Middle­East, Arab peninsula, and some Southeast Asian communities. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 120 million African women are mutilated.

Observation.­ We present a Subsaharan African girl who had undergone infubilation during her childhood and had applied for the deinfibulation procedure. 

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