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Urosepsis and postrenal acute renal failure in a neonate following circumcision with Plastibell device
Meena Kalyanaraman, Derrick McQueen, Joseph Sykes, Tej Phatak, Farhaan Malik, Preethi S. Raghava
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2015;58(4):154-157.   Published online April 22, 2015

Plastibell is one of the three most common devices used for neonatal circumcision in the United States, with a complication rate as low as 1.8%. The Plastibell circumcision device is commonly used under local anesthesia for religious circumcision in male neonates, because of cosmetic reasons and ease of use. Occasionally, instead of falling off, the device may get buried under...