Case report: sex reassignment surgery for Klinefelter syndrome / 中华整形外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Klinefelter syndrome is a congenital disease of chromosomal aberrations with a prevalence of 0.8%-2.0% in men, which mainly represented as absence of sexual characteristics such as postpubescent undeveloped or less developed testicular, feminine breast development. This article reports two Klinefelter syndrome patients with chromosome karyotype of 47, XXY from 2006 to 2016. Each has successively received series of sex reassignment surgery to improve their genital and secondary sexual characteristics based on their own preferences, satisfactory outcome is therefore achieved.