[Sex change surgery in transsexuals]

Surgical conversion of sex in transsexuals implies basically removal of the testes or uterus and creation of the opposite genital. At the Urological Clinic of the General Faculty Hospital and First Medical Faculty, Charles University in Prague during the period from 1992-1998 18 male and 29 female transsexuals were operated. In male transsexualism 17 times the technique of inversion of penile skin was used and in one instance sigmoideoplasty. In female transsexualism 17 metaidoioplasties were made, three plastic operations of the neophallus from inguinal skin flaps and 25 reducing mammaplasties.