Outcome of Vaginoplasty in Male-to-Female Transgenders: A Systematic Review of Surgical Techniques

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1499-1512

  Horbach, Sophie E R ^a   Bouman, Mark Bram ^a   Smit, Jan Maerten ^a   Özer, Müjde ^a   Buncamper, Marlon E ^a   Mullender, Margriet G ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bowel Vaginoplasty; Gender Identity Disorder; Penile Inversion Vaginoplasty; Sex Reassignment Surgery; Transsexualism; Vaginoplasty

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BOWEL VAGINOPLASTY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEPRESSION; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE SEXUAL FUNCTION INDEX; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; GENDER DYSPHORIA; GENITAL PAIN; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSGENDER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MICTURITION DISORDER; MIXED INCONTINENCE; NEOVAGINAL STENOSIS; NOCTURIA; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PENILE SKIN INVERSION TECHNIQUE; PENOSCROTAL INVERSION TECHNIQUE; PILOT STUDY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTOCELE; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM INJURY; RECTUM PERFORATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEX REASSIGNMENT; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SKIN GRAFT; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSSEXUALISM; URETHRA STENOSIS; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINA; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; VAGINITIS; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; ADULT; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; PENIS; PERINEUM; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGERY; TRANSGENDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PENIS; PERINEUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA;

EID: 84930382334     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12868     Document Type: Article

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