Penectomy

Penectomy

Penectomy is the practice of surgical removal of the penis for medical reasons.

Cancer, for example, sometimes necessitates removal of all or part of the penis.cite journal |author=Korets R, Koppie TM, Snyder ME, Russo P |title=Partial penectomy for patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the penis: the memorial sloan-kettering experience |journal=Ann. Surg. Oncol. |volume=14 |issue=12 |pages=3614–9 |year=2007 |pmid=17896151 |doi=10.1245/s10434-007-9563-9] In very rare instances, botched circumcisions have also resulted in full or partial penectomies, as with David Reimer.

Genital surgical procedures for transsexual women undergoing sex reassignment surgery do not usually involve the complete removal of the penis. Instead, part or all of the glans is usually kept and reshaped as a clitoris, while the skin of the penile shaft may also be inverted to form the vagina. When procedures such as this are not possible, other procedures such as colovaginoplasty are used which may involve the removal of the penis.

Issues related to the removal of the penis appear in psychology, for example in the condition known as castration anxiety.

Some men have undergone penectomies as a voluntary body modification, but professional opinion is divided as to whether or not the desire for penile amputation is a pathology, thus including it as part of a body dysmorphic disorder.

Related

* Voluntary subincision
* Removal of the glans penis
* Bifurcation

References

ee also

* David Reimer
* John and Lorena Bobbitt
* Penis transplantation


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