Type of Surgery
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Last updated: 02/17/2009
BOOKS
Bostwick, John. Plastic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery, 2nd edition. St. Louis: Quality Medical Publishers, 1999.
Engler, Alan M. Body Sculpture: Plastic Surgery of the Body forMen and Women,...
2nd edition. New York: Hudson, 2000.
Tanagho, Emil A. and Jack W. McAninch. Smith's GeneralUrology, 15th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Walsh, Patrick C. and Alan B. Retik. Campbell's Urology, 8th Edition. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2002.
Wilson, Josephine F. Biological Foundations of Human Behavior. New York: Harcourt, 2002.
PERIODICALS
Asscheman, H., L. J. Gooren, and P. L. Eklund. "Mortality and Morbidity in Transsexual Patients with Cross-Gender Hormone Treatment."Metabolism 38, No. 9 (1989): 869โ73.
Docter, R. F. and J. S. Fleming. "Measures of Transgender Behavior."Archives of Sexual Behavior 30, No. 3 (2001): 255โ71.
Fugate, S. R., C. C. Apodaca, and M. L. Hibbert. "Gender Reassignment Surgery and the Gynecological Patient."Primary Care Update for Obstetrics and Gynecology 8, No. 1 (2001): 22โ4.
Harish, D., and B. R. Sharma. "Medical Advances in Transsexualism and the Legal Implications."American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 24, No. 1 (2003): 100โ05.
Jarolim, L. "Surgical Conversion of Genitalia in Transsexual Patients."British Journal of Urology International 85, No. 7 (2000): 851โ56.
Monstrey, S., P. Hoebeke, M. Dhont, G. De Cuypere, R. Rubens, M. Moerman, M. Hamdi, K. Van Landuyt, and P. Blondeel. "Surgical Therapy in Transsexual Patients: A Multi-disciplinary Approach."Annals of Surgery (Belgium) 101, No. 5 (2001): 200โ09.
ORGANIZATIONS
American Medical Association. 515 N. State Street, Chicago, IL 60610, Phone: (312) 464-5000.
American Psychiatric Association. 1400 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20005, (888) 357-7924. Fax: (202) 682-6850. apa@psych.org.
American Psychological Association. 750 First Street NW, Washington, DC, 20002-4242. (800) 374-2721 or (202) 336-5500.
American Urological Association. 1120 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201-5559. (410) 727-1100.
OTHER
Health A to Z [cited March 24, 2003].
Hendrick Health System [cited March 24, 2003].
Intersex Society of North America [cited March 24, 2003].
University of Missouri-Kansas City [cited March 24, 2003].
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Other Information
Sex reassignment surgery (SRS), gender reassignment surgery, or sex-change operation is a term for the surgical procedures by which a person's physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are altered to resemble that of the other sex. It is part of a treatment for gender identity disorder in transsexual and transgender people. It may also be performed on intersex people, often in infancy. Other terms for SRS include gender reassignment surgery, sex reconstruction surgery, genital reconstruction surgery, gender confirmation surgery, and more recently sex affirmation surgery. The commonly used terms sex change or sex change operation are considered factually inaccurate. The terms feminizing genitoplasty and masculinizing genitoplasty are used medically.
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