Dr Jean-Etienne Terrier, urological surgeon at Jean Mermoz private hospital in Lyon, told us about his activity regarding gender affirming surgeries, the different stages for the phalloplasty and his experience...
17 August 2017
The re-innervated Musculocutaneous Latissimus Dorsi (MLD) flap gives the patient the possibility of achieving sexual intercourse without a prosthesis. The voluntary contraction of the phallus is notable soon after the...
17 August 2017
FFF Phalloplasty is a good alternative for patients, who do not want the forearm scar that is left by radial forearm phalloplasty. This procedure offers several advantages. For one, there...
17 August 2017
The Anterolateral Thigh (ALT) Flap is made of skin, fat and fascia. The descending branch of the lateral femoral circumflex vessels supplies blood to the flap and the lateral femoral...
17 August 2017
MLD = Musculocutaneous Latissimus Dorsi Flap Phalloplasty Musculocutaneous Latissimus Dorsi (MLD) Flap Phalloplasty uses part of a back muscle and includes the thoracodorsal vessels and nerve. The blood supply is...
17 August 2017
FFF sine fibula is a variation of Fibula Free Flap phalloplasty, whereby the flap is created without sacrificing the fibula. The neophallus is thinner, more elegant, less rigid and able...
17 August 2017
Pedicled ALT phalloplasty uses an ALT flap (Anterolateral Thigh flap). At one end the flap remains attached to the donor site and the other end is connected to the recipient...
17 August 2017
Bird-Wing Abdominal Phalloplasty aims to minimize complications and does not include microsurgical nerve connection. It is a simpler, pragmatic procedure, which benefits patients, who wish to minimize scarring. In order...
17 August 2017
A first total penile reconstruction using a tubularized pedicled abdominal flap was reported in 1936. In the 1980s, the introduction of microvascular free flap transfers started a new era of...