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A New Method for Clitoroplasty in Male-to-Female Sex Reassignment Surgery
- Source :
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 89:679-682
- Publication Year :
- 1992
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1992.
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Abstract
- Sex reassignment surgery has proved to be the best resolution for primary transsexuals. In 1980, Dr. Rubin stated that preservation of the glans to reconstruct the clitoris in male-to-female sex reassignment surgery gave good cosmetic and functional results. In his series, Rubin used the corpus spongiosum as the vascular pedicle of the neoclitoris, but urine leakage is a complication. From 1988 to the present, the dorsal portion of the glans penis with the dorsal neurovascular pedicle has been used here for clitoroplasty in nine male-to-female primary transsexuals. All neoclitorides survived well, with good preservation of light touch and sexual sensation. No urine leakage has occurred. Six patients who were followed reported sexual satisfaction.
Details
- ISSN :
- 00321052
- Volume :
- 89
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........86efc9aa6b9cf932fad3e9c4b36204f6