The study also focused on increased
phalloplasty risks for trans-male patients and with staged-urethral surgery.
Despite regarding it as the preeminent technique, urological complications remain the ubiquitous challenge of radial forearm
phalloplasty. In the largest published series, 41% of patients suffered urological complications, mostly urethral strictures and fistulae; however, complications have also been reported as high as 80% [2, 3].
Reasons for the lack of emphasis on transgendered men include the fact that most gender clinics were directed at transgender women rather than men; that
phalloplasty is a relatively recent and expensive procedure compared with vaginoplasty; and perhaps most importantly, that there is a male bias in the perspective of researchers.
Key Words:
Phalloplasty, pre-op care, post-op care, female-to-male trans gender surgery, sex reassignment surgery.
Treatment generally performed is
phalloplasty or feminizing genitoplasty.
In 17 of 70 patients additional
phalloplasty with free flaps was performed at a later stage.
Krakovsky holds three US patents for cosmetic
phalloplasty surgeries and practically developed this field of medicine and surgery in the US and in the world, including the Penile Dual Augmentation[TM] and Penile Triple Augmentation[TM] surgical methods.
He will eventually undergo breast removal surgery and then a
phalloplasty - the construction of a penis.
He had the outdoor look prized by Marlboro, which had been a lady's cigarette--its motto was "Mild as May"--until undergoing
phalloplasty on Madison Avenue.
He explains that he had a hysterectomy and ovarectomy, but to date has avoided a
phalloplasty, though he is now saving the R100 000 needed for a metoidioplasty-repositioning and enlarging of the clitoris (the latter via hormone treatment) plus a relatively complicated extension of the urethra, 'so you can pee through it'.