Keratinization of the adult male foreskin and implications for male circumcision

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OBJECTIVE: The theory that a more thinly keratinized inner foreskin leads to increased HIV-1 susceptibility has been based on relatively little published data. We sought to quantify the keratin thicknesses of the inner and outer foreskin to determine the plausibility of this hypothesis. DESIGN: We took repeated measurements of the keratin layer of 16 adult male foreskins to determine whether differences existed...

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