Table 1.

Search terms, strategy, and articles retrieved from PubMed, EMBASE, and Scopus^*

Search term	Total†	Found‡	References
PubMed
Circumcision sexual function	230	2	[12],[13]
Circumcision sexual satisfaction	73	0
Penis histology nerves sensitivity	30	1	[14]
Penis sexual sensation	158	1	[15]
Penis Meissner’s	4	2	[6],[16]
Penis Meissner	8	2	[17],[18]
Penile nerve structure	77	2	[19],[20]
Penis histology circumcision	515	1	[21]
Meissner’s corpuscles human	58	0
Prepuce sensory sensation	6	0
Prepuce innervation	44	2	[20],[23]
Penis nerve human anatomy	1,014	1	[24]
Sensory genital	369	1	[25]
Mucocutaneous end-organ	6	2	[26],[27]
EMBASE
“Circumcision” and “sexual function”	125	0
“Circumcision” and “sexual satisfaction”	70	0
“Penis” and “histology” and “nerves” and “sensitivity”	3	1	[28]
“Penis” and “sexual sensation”	9	0
“Penis” and “Meissner”	15	0
“Penile nerve” and “structure”	135	1	[29]
“Penis histology” and “circumcision”	14	0
“Penis” and “histology” and “circumcision”	173	0
“Meissner corpuscle” and “human”	94	0
“Prepuce” and “sensory sensation”	0	0
“Prepuce” and “sensation”	0	0
“Prepuce” and “innervation”	23	3	30–32
“Penis” and “nerve” and “human” and “anatomy”	435	5	33–35
“Penis” and “glans” and “epithelium”	171	0
“Sensory” and “ corpuscle” and “genital”	29	0
Scopus
“Penis” and “sensitivity”	848	3	[36],[37]
“Genital corpuscles”	11	0
“Genital end bulbs”	4	0

^*Searches were conducted in the order listed. Any article already retrieved was not included if it appeared again during any subsequent search. Thus, each search was intended to identify only articles not found already

^†“Total” is the total number of articles that appeared for each search

^‡“Found” is the number of articles that fulfilled the search criteria of containing structural information