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Surgical Options for Patients Seeking Gender-Affirming Surgery
- Source :
- Current Obstetrics and Gynecology Reports. 9:178-186
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- To describe the surgical treatments available to transgender women and men desiring gender-affirming surgery (GAS). Transgender patients who undergo GAS have high satisfaction and improved quality of life. Masculinizing procedures include chest reconstruction, facial masculinization surgeries, hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, metoidioplasty, and phalloplasty. Feminizing procedures include facial feminization surgeries, chondroplasty and voice surgeries, breast augmentation, orchiectomy, and genital surgeries, such as vaginoplasty and vulvoplasty. Vaginoplasty can be performed with inversion of penile skin, sigmoid colon, or peritoneal flaps. The most common GAS surgery in the United States is chest masculinization surgery. Major complications after penile-inversion vaginoplasty are infrequent. A wide range of surgical options exist for the treatment of gender dysphoria. In recent years, systematic reviews and meta-analysis data have shown high satisfaction and more consistent complication rates for GAS. Limited, multicenter data exist regarding surgical techniques, outcomes, and complications.
- Subjects :
- Gender dysphoria
medicine.medical_specialty
030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine
Hysterectomy
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Chondroplasty
Metoidioplasty
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Surgery
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Transgender
medicine
Vaginoplasty
030212 general & internal medicine
Phalloplasty
business
Breast augmentation
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Details
- ISSN :
- 21613303
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Obstetrics and Gynecology Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9ec5b7e1ce05dae7b74204942f614275