glansplasty
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[edit]Noun
[edit]glansplasty (plural glansplasties)
- The surgical (re)construction of a glans penis, in particular its ridge (the corona glandis penis, typically resulting in a circumcised-looking penis).
- 2015 April 27, Prasad P. Godbole, Martin A. Koyle, Duncan T. Wilcox, Pediatric Urology: Surgical Complications and Management, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 264:
- Treatment is reoperative urethroplasty and glansplasty (reoperative TIP), and the authors now routinely […]
- 2018, I. Nolan, C.S. Crowe, et al., Cultural considerations regarding glansplasty, in the journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery:
- A variety of flaps have been pioneered to meet these goals, and many of them allow for glansplasty to approximate a corona. […]
- 2022, Soumya A. Reddy, et al., High Surgical Complication Rates after Silicone Implant Use for Improvement of Glans Ridge Appearance, in Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open (2022 Jul 22)
- Most patients receiving phalloplasty surgery undergo a glansplasty to create a glans ridge and recapitulate the appearance of a circumcised phallus. […] Patients and surgeons should be aware of the possibility of a novel silicone implant technique to create a glansplasty in those with failed/flattened previous glansplasty surgery.