Phalloplasty is the construction or reconstruction of a penis, or the artificial modification of the penis by surgery. The term is also occasionally used to refer to penis enlargement.
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Origin YearThe same section dates the first gender-affirming phalloplasty to 1946 and 1977; 1936 is recorded as the first reconstruction of a total penis. Sources
1. Wikipedia
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalloplasty, lead sectionQuote, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalloplasty, lead section
Phalloplasty is the construction or reconstruction of a penis or the artificial modification of the penis by surgery.
2. Phalloplasty (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Phalloplasty, History sectionQuote, Wikipedia: Phalloplasty, History section
Russian surgeon Nikolaj Bogoraz performed the first reconstruction of a total penis using rib cartilage in a reconstructed phallus made from a tubed abdominal flap in 1936.
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