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A recent case series of children with female genital cutting (FGC) from London provides a rare look at current clinical pediatric experience in the West.
From 2006 to 2014, 27 children referred to a “safeguarding” clinic in a London tertiary care pediatric hospital were confirmed to have experienced FGC, of whom 67% were from Somalia and 74% were younger than 10 years old at time of FGC. No FGC was confirmed to have occurred in the U.K. Of 21 girls examined, 2 had WHO type 1 FGC (partial/total removal of clitoris), 8 had type 2 (partial/total removal of clitoris and labia minora/majora), and 11 had type 4 (all other harmful procedures to genitals for nonmedical purpose, e.g., pricking, cutting, piercing). None had type 3 (infibulation, or pa…