Gender Confirmation Surgery: Principles and Techniques for an Emerging Field

 

Description:

Gender confirming surgery represents one of many therapies for individuals with gender dysphoria and can be pivotal in allowing individuals to become their true selves. An emerging field, this text represents a continuing evolution of surgical techniques, as well as a framework around which surgical therapies are based. Providing a fundamental understanding of the surgical principles while also recognizing the fast-paced nature of the advances in technique, Gender Confirmation Surgery touches upon the challenges and complexities in the surgical care of transgender individuals, featuring detailed sections for transwomen and transmen surgeries, non-surgical options, and establishing educational programs. Written as a guide primarily for surgeons in plastics, urology, and gynecology, this book can also appeal to primary care practitioners, mental health professionals, and endocrinologists. By representing an evolution of technique and advances in the field, Gender Confirmation Surgery offers a framework around which practitioners can familiarize themselves with gender surgery.

 

Table of Contents:

 

1.  History, Societal Attitudes, and Contexts

2.  Etiology of Gender Dysphoria

3.  History of Gender Identity and Surgical Alteration of the Genitalia

4.  Language and Terminology in Transgender Health

5.  The Mental Health Assessment for Surgery

6.  Primary Care for the Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Patient

7.  Hormone Therapy for Transgender Women

8.  Hormone Therapy for Transgender Men

9.  Medical Management of the Adolescent Individual with Gender Dysphoria

10.  Male-to-Female Breast Augmentation and Body Contouring

11.  The Importance of Facial Gender Confirmation Surgery

12.  Facial Gender Affirmation Surgery: Facial Feminization Surgery and Facial Masculinization Surgery

13.  Fertility Preservation Options for Transgender and Trans Masculine Patients Planning Hysterectomy

14.  Penile Inversion Vaginoplasty

15.  Intestinal Vaginoplasty

16.  Chest Masculinization Surgery

17.  Urethral Anatomy and Urethral Reconstruction in Phalloplasty and Metoidioplasty

18.  MLD (Musculocutaneous Latissimus Dorsi) Phalloplasty

19.  Radial Forearm (RF) and Anterolateral Thigh (ALT) Phalloplasty Reconstruction

20.  Management of Urethral Complications Following Metoidioplasty and Phalloplasty

21.  Strategies to Optimize Sexual Function with Feminizing and Masculinizing Genital Gender-Affirming Surgery

22.  Postoperative Care from the Primary Care Perspective

23.  Religious Attitudes Toward Gender-Confirming Surgery

24.  Establishment of a Gender Confirmation Program

Correction to: Male-to-Female Breast Augmentation and Body Contouring

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