What is it about?
Making a penis using a person's own thigh tissue
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Why is it important?
This type of surgery can be used for reconstruction, or transgender surgery, gender confirmation/ affirmation surgery.
Perspectives
This was the first publication on using this technique in the published literature. It is being used by many surgeons today for penis reconstruction.
Gordon Lee
Stanford University
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This page is a summary of: A Novel Single-Flap Technique for Total Penile Reconstruction: The Pedicled Anterolateral Thigh Flap, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, July 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health,
DOI: 10.1097/prs.0b013e3181ab2593.
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