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This book considers in particular the diseases which result in sexual handicap and which can be treated by reconstructive surgery. The main topics are breast surgery, including congenital anomalies and reconstruction after amputation, genital malformations, from congenital anomalies in the vaginal area and of the penis through to the deformities of intersexuality and aplasia of the vagina, changes due to genital prolapse in women, the lost penis syndrome and impotence with vasosurgical and prosthetic remedies, and genital transformation in the case of transsexualism (both male-to-female and vice versa). Plastic, pediatric, and vascular surgeons as well as urologists and gynecologists will value this concise information with regard to surgical technique. These features are, however, of equal importance to all other physicians who are involved in sexual medicine and so have to be well informed on the subjects of diagnostics and possible therapies. They include general practitioners, specialists in internal medicine, andrologists, gynecologists, urologists, pediatricians, and - not least - psychiatrists and psychotherapists.