Occurrence of phantom genitalia after gender reassignment surgery

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1001-1003

  Ramachandran, V S ^a   McGeoch, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; GENDER DYSPHORIA; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSSEXUAL; PENIS AMPUTATION; PHANTOM PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX TRANSFORMATION; TRANSSEXUALISM;

GENDER IDENTITY; GENITALIA; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHANTOM LIMB; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 34548733043     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.02.024     Document Type: Article

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