Archives of Plastic Surgery (Sep 2019)

Mastectomy in female-to-male transgender patients: A single-center 24-year retrospective analysis

  • Shafreena Kühn,
  • Seirah Keval,
  • Robert Sader,
  • Lara Küenzlen,
  • Marcus Kiehlmann,
  • Gabriel Djedovic,
  • Ahmet Bozkurt,
  • Ulrich Michael Rieger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5999/aps.2018.01214
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 46, no. 05
pp. 433 – 440

Abstract

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Background Mastectomy in male transgender patients is an important (and often the first) step toward physical manhood. At our department, mastectomies in transgender patients have been performed for several decades.

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