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Clitoroplasty: past, present and future
W L Lean1, J M Hutson, A V Deshpande
1Department of General Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Pediatric Surgery International
|March 3, 2007
Abstract:
This paper reviews the history of clitoral surgery throughout the twentieth century. The changing operations, from amputation through to attempts to produce a normal clitoris mirror the changing attitudes and available knowledge. It also examines the current issues that arise out of available data on long-term outcomes of clitoroplasty.
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