Summary
Bilateral traumatic castration if left untreated can result in permanent sexual, social
and psychological maladjustments. We hereby report a novel procedure of temporary
ectopic replantation of a traumatically avulsed testis on the forearm with refabrication
and subsequent successful orthotopic microsurgical transfer to the perineum. The significance
of this replantation is related to the refabrication of a long pedicle for subsequent
reattachment to the perineum. This would not have been possible but for the ectopic
replantation.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: May 30, 2007
Accepted:
January 22,
2007
Received:
November 9,
2006
Footnotes
☆Presented as a paper at the 9th Asian-Pacific Congress of the International Confederation of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Mumbai, India (March 2005).
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© 2007 British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
