Human Penile Transplantation: An Unjustified Ethical Dilemma?
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 29884462.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.eururo.2018.05.026.
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Abstract
Vascularized composite allotransplantation has enabled the performance of five reported penile transplantations across the world with additional transplantations planned. Penile transplantation raises ethical questions concerning aesthetics, morbidity, function, and cost-burden given the more readily available and less morbid alternative of phalloplasty.
Medical subject headings
- Clinical Decision-Making
- Penis
- Unnecessary Procedures
- Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation
- Penile Transplantation