"Not just ongoing violence, which everybody thinks about, but even when it's over, there's something about what happens that seems to have a lingering effect that we don't quite understand yet, " said Dr. Anuradha Paranjape, co-author of the study and associate professor at Temple University School of Medicine.

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"In some cases, we can get four football fields of skin out of one baby foreskin, " said Dr. James McGuire, head of wound management at the Foot and Ankle Institute at the School of Podiatric Medicine at Temple University, in Philadelphia.

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