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Published on: September 20, 2018
[Congenital absence of the vagina in 126 patients]
Jing Gao1, Guangyu Chen, Gang Zhou
1Multiple Treatment Centre for Scar, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing 100041, China.
Objectives:
To investigate the clinical features and therapeutic results of multiple approaches for congenital absence of the vagina, and to find out the prevention of complications and reconstruction method.
Methods:
We analysed retrospectively 126 patients with congenital absence of the vagina from 1979 to 2002.
Results:
Congenital absence of the vagina occurred in 31.25% urinary tract anomalies and 6.35% musculoskeletal anomalies. Of the 126 patients, 6 received 2 or more than 2 operations, the remaining recovered after reconstruction of the vagina by using the inferior abdominal wall skin flap and pudendal-thigh skin flap.
Conclusions:
The techniques should be selected according to the conditions of the patient and features of multiple approaches. Damage to the rectum and urinary tract should be avoided in addition to postoperative retraction or prolapse of flaps and stenosis of the vaginal orifice.
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