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Atlas of Operative Techniques in Gender Affirmation Surgery

  • 1st Edition - April 18, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Rajveer S. Purohit, Miroslav L Djordjevic
  • Language: English

As transgender and gender non-binary individuals are a growing demographic, the number of patients seeking gender confirmation surgery is increasing. Atlas of Operative Te… Read more

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Description

As transgender and gender non-binary individuals are a growing demographic, the number of patients seeking gender confirmation surgery is increasing. Atlas of Operative Techniques in Gender Affirmation Surgery is a highly illustrated and practical guide to the different types of gender affirmation surgery. Top and bottom surgeries are illustrated include facial feminization, mastectomy, techniques in phalloplasty, metoidioplasty, different approaches to vaginoplasty, management of complications of gender affirming surgery, and more.

This comprehensive textbook is a must-have guide for individuals interested in gender affirmation surgery to master the complex operative procedures that this field demands and to refine their techniques.

Key features

  • Guides the user step-by-step through both feminizing and masculinizing procedures
  • Features high-resolution illustrations of techniques to enhance visual understanding
  • Includes recent surgical updates that include comparative advantages and disadvantages of each surgery

Readership

Surgeons performing gender affirmation procedures, fellows and residents from plastic surgery, urology, pediatric surgery and gynecology

Table of contents

Part 1. Introduction

1. Developing a Gender Confirmation Program: Surgical Perspectives

2. Perioperative considerations for GCS

3. Standards of Care for GCS

Part 2. Techniques in Feminizing Surgery

4. Facial Feminization

5. Tracheal shave and Voice Surgery

6. Breast augmentation

7. Body Contouring

8. Orchiectomy

9. Penile Inversion vaginoplasty (multiple different techniques)

10. Vaginoplasty with bowel segment

11. Robotics and Peritoneal Pull through Vaginoplasty

Part 3. Techniques in Masculinizing Surgery

12. Facial masculinization

13. Mastectomy

14. RFF phalloplasty

15. MLD phalloplasty

16. ALT phalloplasty

17. Abdominal phalloplasty

18. Metoidioplasty: Variants of Technique

19. Penile prosthesis

20. Scrotoplasty and Testicular implants

Part 4. Surgery Techniques to Manage Complications of GCS

21. Masculinizing Top surgery complications

22. Feminizing Top Surgery Complications

23. Strictures and Fistula after masculinizing surgery

24. Urethral hook-up and management of the clitoris in masculinizing surgery

25. Vaginal remnants, stenosis and fistula after feminizing surgery

26. Vaginectomy and hysterectomy complications

27. Surgery for Regret after GCS

28. Satisfaction and Outcomes after GCS

Part 5. Video Demonstration of Technique
Mastectomy
FFS
Metoidioplasty and Variants of Technique
Penile Inversion Vaginoplasty
Robot Assisted Vaginoplasty
MLD phallo
ALT phalloplasty
RFF phalloplasty
Penile prosthesis after Phalloplasty

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 19, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

RP

Rajveer S. Purohit

Dr. Purohit is the co-director of Reconstructive Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and Associate Professor in its Department of Urology. In 2018, Mt. Sinai appointed him co-director of its first fellowship in Reconstructive Urology that trains methods of gender affirmation surgery including vaginoplasty, metoidioplasty and phalloplasty. His areas of research include reconstructive urology, voiding dysfunction, urethral strictures, gender affirmation surgery, mesh complications, reconstructive urology voiding dysfunction, minimally invasive urology, urogynecology, urologic oncology, treatment of complications of surgery and radiation therapy, and erectile dysfunction. His research in urethral strictures revealed that low-stage urethral strictures rarely progresses and does not require surgery.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, USA

MD

Miroslav L Djordjevic

Dr Miroslav L Djordjevic is a Professor of Urology and Surgery at the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. The main field of his multidisciplinary work is urogenital reconstructive surgery, encompassing treatment of all anomalies of the genital system, regardless of gender or age. Professor Djordjevic has been multiply awarded for his comprehensive scientific work. He is the Editor of many leading Journals and Books, and a member of all relevant international associations in the field of urology and genital reconstructive surgery. Professor Djordjevic has been invited lecturer and Visiting Professor on many universities all around the world. As a member of humanitarian societies, he actively participated in humanitarian missions over the world. Finally, he is the founder and leader of Belgrade Center for Genital Reconstructive Surgery, which is chosen as a fellowship program center by 20-30 foreign colleagues every year. He is the former President of GURS (Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons Society). From 2019, Professor Djordjevic joined Urology Department, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, United States. From 2022 he is a gender affirming consultant surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK.

Affiliations and expertise
Belgrade Center for Genitouronary Reconstructive Surgery, School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States

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