After implantations in Belgium, Germany, France, Iceland, and Sweden, Dr. Ignacio Moncada of the Zarzuela hospital in Madrid has implanted a ZSI FTM penile implant for the first time in...
12 October 2017
We are very happy to present you the interview we had of Dr. Pottek, surgeon in Berlin, who have been working with ZSI for years now! He talks about his...
21 August 2017
A few weeks ago we told you about a patient with a phalloplasty which required two replacement surgeries and the reconstruction of the glans. I (Blanche) had the pleasure of interviewing a...
21 August 2017
On September 22, 2016, in the Montchoisi clinic in Lausanne, Switzerland, Dr. Paul-Jean Daverio placed the ZSI 475 FTM L180 (18cm) implant in a patient who already had a phalloplasty....
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...
