Circumcision complications and indications for ritual recircumcision--clinical experience and review of the literature.

The aim of this work is to review the complications of circumcision in the literature of medicine and Jewish law. One of the problems discussed in Jewish law concerns a remnant of the prepuce covering the corona, thus causing the circumcision to be incomplete. There is a controversy in Jewish law sources regarding the definition of the corona--whether it is all the glans penis, or only the cord surrounding the base of the glans. During the last 8 years, our center has been consulted about recircumcision for 60 children and about treatment for another group who had developed complications due to circumcision, often as a result of "nonprofessional" circumcision.