Case report: sex reassignment surgery for Klinefelter syndrome
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1009-4598.2018.08.018
- VernacularTitle: 性别重置手术治疗Klinefelter综合征二例
- Author:
Zhaoji XIA
1
;
Pengwu ZHOU
;
Bailin PAN
Author Information
1. Department of Plastic Surgery, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords:
Klinefelter syndrome;
Sex change operation
- From:
Chinese Journal of Plastic Surgery
2018;34(8):668-670
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Klinefelter syndrome is a congenital disease of chromosomal aberrations with a prevalence of 0.8%-2.0% in men, which mainly represented as absence of sexual characteristics such as postpubescent undeveloped or less developed testicular, feminine breast development. This article reports two Klinefelter syndrome patients with chromosome karyotype of 47, XXY from 2006 to 2016. Each has successively received series of sex reassignment surgery to improve their genital and secondary sexual characteristics based on their own preferences, satisfactory outcome is therefore achieved.
