Reviewer’s report
Title: 
A 36-year-old lady with type three Female Genital Mutilation
(Infibulation) – its long-term complications: a case report and literature review
Version: 
0 
Date: 
15 Dec 2022
Reviewer's report:
Dear Editor;
To authors;
First of all, the issue of female genital mutilation/cutting is really one of the
problems of women living not only in African countries but all over the world.
because as the world becomes global, problems can arise in all countries. Thank
you very much for writing an article addressing this problem.
First of all, I recommend that you finish the conlusion section of your article
with two clearer and more emphatic sentences.
Everyone now knows that the FGM/C types in the Background section are
classified according to WHO, and please do not need to explain each FGM type
separately. I suggest you write a short summary.
In the case presentation section, you should specify whether the patient is
married/single/divorced and whether there is a history of pregnancy. Because all
the women in Africa usually get married until they are 36 years old, because I
know as someone who has lived there for a long time.
In the discussion section, you can better express that it would be very helpful to
use the following articles on complications that can be seen in all ages, and how
troublesome FGM/C is.
Birge Ö, Akbaş M, Özbey EG, Adıyeke M. Clitoral keloids after female genital
mutilation/cutting. Turk J Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Sep;13(3):154-157. doi:
10.4274/tjod.32067. Epub 2016 Sep 15. PMID: 28913112; PMCID:
PMC5558307.
Birge O, Erkan MM, Serin AN. Case report: epidermoid inclusion cyst of the
clitoris as a long-term complication of female genital mutilation. J Med Case
Rep. 2019 Apr 27;13(1):109. doi: 10.1186/s13256-019-2035-6. PMID:
31027516; PMCID: PMC6486694.
Arslan, D., Bozkurt, O., BİRGE, Ö., DEMİR, Ö., & ESEN, A. (2015). A
Complication of Female Circumcision Vaginal Stenosis and Total Incontinence
Due to Urethral Intercourse. Journal of Urological Surgery, 2(2).
I suggest that the information about HIV and other infections mentioned in the
discussion section is not suitable for a case report, but should be used in a
review.
I suggest removing old sources (from 2000 and earlier) in the references. It is
particularly convenient to exclude references 17 and 1.
It may be appropriate to publish after these regulations.
Yours truly
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