glansplasty

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glansplasty (plural glansplasties)

  1. 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.
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