Status of sex reassignment surgery for gender identity disorder in Japan

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 402-414

  Masumori, Naoya ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Female to male; Gender identity disorder; Male to female; Sex reassignment surgery

Indexed keywords

ALLYLESTRENOL; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHLORMADINONE ACETATE; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL DIPROPIONATE; ESTRADIOL VALERATE; ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GESTAGEN; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE CAPROATE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MESTRANOL; PRASTERONE; SEX HORMONE; SPIRONOLACTONE; STEROID 11BETA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE;

ACNE; AGGRESSION; ALOPECIA; ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; BONE DENSITY; BREAST CANCER; CASTRATION; CAUTERIZATION; CHOLELITHIASIS; CIRCUMCISION; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; GONADECTOMY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; HYSTERECTOMY; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; JAPAN; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIVER CYST; MASTECTOMY; OBESITY; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; PENIS AMPUTATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SEX REASSIGNMENT; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VIRILIZATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 84860229886     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: 14422042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2012.02975.x     Document Type: Review

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