TY - JOUR
T1 - Labial masses following vaginoplasty in male transsexuals
T2 - The differential diagnosis
AU - Hage, J. J.
AU - Karim, R. B.
AU - Bloemena, E.
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - Following vaginoplasty and vulvoplasty for male-to-female transsexualism, a mass may evolve in one of the major labia in a minority of patients. From April to 1989 to April of 1994, we treated seven patients with such masses. The case reports presented illustrate some of the differential diagnoses of this long-term complication. More often than not, the swelling was caused by infection. The funiculus or even testicular rest in itself also may represent the mass. Intralabial urethral fistula appears to be the second cause of swelling, either with or without inflammation. As an exceptional cause we observed a swelling representing a cyst of prostatic origin. In all, the mass could be excised completely.
AB - Following vaginoplasty and vulvoplasty for male-to-female transsexualism, a mass may evolve in one of the major labia in a minority of patients. From April to 1989 to April of 1994, we treated seven patients with such masses. The case reports presented illustrate some of the differential diagnoses of this long-term complication. More often than not, the swelling was caused by infection. The funiculus or even testicular rest in itself also may represent the mass. Intralabial urethral fistula appears to be the second cause of swelling, either with or without inflammation. As an exceptional cause we observed a swelling representing a cyst of prostatic origin. In all, the mass could be excised completely.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1097/00006534-199605000-00018
DO - https://doi.org/10.1097/00006534-199605000-00018
M3 - Article
C2 - 8628805
SN - 0032-1052
VL - 97
SP - 1226
EP - 1232
JO - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
JF - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
IS - 6
ER -