Revisão Sistemática: o uso do molde vaginal em cirurgias de vaginoplastia na atualidade – Técnicas e materiais

Abstract

This paper presents a study of techniques and materials used in vaginoplasty surgeries performed worldwide. It consists of a systematic review that covered the identification, selection, and critique of primary studies of topics involving vaginal mold in surgeries for different patients: women with Mayer-Rokitansky's syndrome; and transgenders who underwent sexual reassignment surgery (SRS), that is, patients with gender dysphoria. The researches made in the chosen databases, after applying the criteria of inclusion and exclusion of articles, resulted in 19 publications, which represented the basis of the construction of this work. It also focuses on the description of the technologies, materials and methods applied in the manufacture of vaginal molds, used in surgery. In all studies, the molds have the function of maintaining the structure of the formed canal, thus avoiding vaginal stenosis, besides fixing the material used as graft in the new cavity, covering it, favoring the epithelialization.