Patient-reported complications and functional outcomes of male-to-female sex reassignment surgery

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 717-727

  Lawrence, Anne A ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Follow up; Sex reassignment surgery; Transsexual; Vaginoplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLITORIS; EROTISM; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HAIR; HAPPINESS; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTURBATION; ORGASM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PENIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RECTUM FISTULA; SENSATION; SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSEXUALISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA STENOSIS; VAGINA; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; COITUS; GENDER IDENTITY; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; LIBIDO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TRANSSEXUALISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845434167     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-006-9104-9     Document Type: Article

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