Preexpansion in Phalloplasty Patients: Is It Effective?

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

Phalloplasty is performed as genital gender-affirming surgery in transmasculine persons. It requires the harvest of sizeable autologous fasciocutaneous flaps, which is associated with donor-site morbidity and extensive scarring. Flap preexpansion has been used to facilitate wound closure and reduce scarring, but the efficacy of flap preexpansion in phalloplasty is unclear. The objective of this study was to assess the safety and effectiveness of preexpansion before phalloplasty.

Related collections

Author and article information

Journal

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Ann Plast Surg

Title: Annals of plastic surgery

Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

ISSN (Electronic): 1536-3708

ISSN (Print): 0148-7043

Publication date (Electronic): December 2019

Volume: 83

Issue: 6

Affiliations

[1 ] From the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Amsterdam Movement Research Institute, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

[2 ] Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute.

[3 ] Department of Medical Psychology, Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria Amsterdam UMC.

[4 ] Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

[5 ] Association of Dutch Burn Centers, the Netherlands.

Article

DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0000000000001968

PubMed ID: 31232822

SO-VID: ff96abf5-49fb-4a72-8b0c-1c2f85f9fcab

History

Data availability:

Comments

Comment on this article

scite_

Cited by 2

See all cited by