Sex Reassignment Surgery : Experience at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital

Authors

  • Preecha Tiewtranon Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,Thailand.
  • Prayuth Chokrungvaranont Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,Thailand.
  • Sirachai Jindarak Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,Thailand.
  • Pichit Siriwan Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,Thailand.
  • Apichai Angspatt Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,Thailand.

Abstract

           Transsexualism usually generates major suffering and may be responsible for many consequences such as suicide, self-mutilations, affective disorders and social disabilities.

          The treatment of transsexualism is conventional psychiatric therapy. For those who fail to adjust to their biological sex by the conventional ways, the disharmony of their body and mind causes unhappiness and disturbs their normal daily life. Sex reassignment surgery will be the only way to transform their biological sex to the image in their mind.

          Between 1993-1999, fifty two patients underwent sex reassignment surgery at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital with outcome satisfactory to all patients.

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Published

2001-06-29

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Tiewtranon P, Chokrungvaranont P, Jindarak S, Siriwan P, Angspatt A. Sex Reassignment Surgery : Experience at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. Thai J Surg [Internet]. 2001 Jun. 29 [cited 2024 Dec. 23];22(2):47-50. Available from: https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/ThaiJSurg/article/view/243257

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2001): April - June

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