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Corporeal Sparing Dismembered Clitoroplasty: An...
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Corporeal Sparing Dismembered Clitoroplasty: An Alternative Technique for Feminizing Genitoplasty

Abstract

PURPOSE: Management for clitoral enlargement remains controversial. New understanding of clitoral function stimulated a search for more conservative surgical approaches, such as recession or partial resection. However, these techniques risk decreasing clitoral sensation or causing painful erections. Moreover, irreversibility continues to be the principal problem that fuels patient, surgeon and societal anxiety in the management of this …

Authors

Salle JLP; Braga LP; Macedo N; Rosito N; Bagli D

Journal

Journal of Urology, Vol. 178, No. 4, pp. 1796–1801

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer

Publication Date

October 2007

DOI

10.1016/j.juro.2007.03.167

ISSN

0021-0005