Primary Total Laparoscopic Sigmoid Vaginoplasty in Transgender Women with Penoscrotal Hypoplasia: A Prospective Cohort Study of Surgical Outcomes and Follow-Up of 42 Patients

• Published in: Plastic and reconstructive surgery (1963) Vol. 138; no. 4; p. 614e
• Main Authors: Bouman, Mark-Bram, van der Sluis, Wouter B, Buncamper, Marlon E, Özer, Müjde, Mullender, Margriet G, Meijerink, Wilhelmus J H J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.10.2016
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Colon, Sigmoid - transplantation; Combined Modality Therapy; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Laparoscopy; Male; Outcome Assessment, Health Care; Penis - pathology; Penis - surgery; Postoperative Complications - epidemiology; Prospective Studies; Scrotum - pathology; Scrotum - surgery; Sex Reassignment Procedures; Sex Reassignment Surgery - methods; Treatment Outcome; Vagina - surgery; Young Adult

In young transgender women previously treated with puberty-suppressing hormones, penoscrotal hypoplasia can make penoscrotal inversion vaginoplasty unfeasible. The aim of this study was to prospectively assess surgical outcomes and follow-up of total laparoscopic sigmoid vaginoplasty as primary reco...