Genitoplasty

Genitoplasty surgical procedures are surgeries to the genitals to repair injuries, the effects of disease, complications and damage from cancer treatment, congential^[1] and endocrine conditions, and plastic surgery.

Medical uses

Genitalplasty surgery includes the following:

• Vaginoplasty
• Correction of birth defects
  • congenital adrenal hyperplasia^{[2][3][3][4][5]}
  • microphallus repair^[6]
  • hypospadias repair^[7][8]
  • pseudovaginal perineoscrotal hypospadias repair^[9]
  • androgen insensitivity syndrome repair
  • repair of a urethra that is short^[10]
• labiaplasty
• vaginal construction^[11][12]
• vaginal reconstruction^[11][12]
• repair of vaginal vault prolapse^[13]
• vaginal suspension and fixation^[11][12]
• operations on cul-de-sac^[11][12]
• repair of cystocele^[11][12]
• repair of rectocele^[11][12]
• genital prolapse
• retropubic paravaginal repair^[13]
• hymenorrhaphy

The grafts used in genitalplasty can be an allogenic, a heterograph, an autograft, xenograft, or a autologous material.^[14]

It will correct protrusion of the urinary bladder into the vagina and protrusion of the rectum into the vagina.^[2] Female infants born with a 46,XX genotype but have genitalia affected by congenital adrenal hyperplasia will undergo the surgical creation of a vagina. Vaginoplasty is commonly used to treat women with the congenital absence of the vagina.^[3][3] Other reasons for the surgery is to treat adrenal hyperplasia,^[4] microphallus, Mayer-Rokitansky-Kustner disorder and for women who have had a vaginectomy after malignancy or trauma. Reconstructive and corrective vaginal surgery restores or creates the vagina.^[12]

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