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Descriptor English: Sex Reassignment Surgery
Descriptor Spanish: Cirugía de Reasignación de Sexo
Descriptor cirugía de cambio de sexo
Entry term(s) cirugía de afirmación de género
cirugía de confirmación de género
cirugía de reasignación de género
cirugía de reasignación de sexo
cirugía de reasignación genital
cirugía de reasignación sexual
cirugía de reconstrucción genital
operación de cambio de sexo
Scope note: Procedimiento quirúrgico mediante el cual se cambia el aspecto físico y las capacidades funcionales de una persona para que esté en consonancia con su sexo identificado.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cirurgia de Readequação Sexual
Descriptor French: Chirurgie de changement de sexe
Entry term(s): Confirmation Surgery, Gender
Gender Change Surgeries
Gender Change Surgery
Gender Confirmation Surgeries
Gender Confirmation Surgery
Gender Reassignment Surgeries
Gender Reassignment Surgery
Gender-Affirming Surgery
Sex Change Surgeries
Sex Change Surgery
Sex Reassignment Surgeries
Tree number(s): E02.906.500
E04.617.750
E04.950.449
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D057830
Scope note: Surgical procedure(s) by which a person's physical appearance and functional abilities are changed to align with their identified gender.
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Transsexualism/surgery (1968-2010)
Public MeSH Note: 2011
History Note: 2011
Related: Transsexualism MeSH
DeCS ID: 54231
Unique ID: D057830
NLM Classification: WO 620
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2011/01/01
Date of Entry: 2010/06/25
Revision Date: 2017/06/20
Sex Reassignment Surgery - Preferred
Concept UI M0539292
Scope note Surgical procedure(s) by which a person's physical appearance and functional abilities are changed to align with their identified gender.
Preferred term Sex Reassignment Surgery
Entry term(s) Confirmation Surgery, Gender
Gender Change Surgeries
Gender Change Surgery
Gender Confirmation Surgeries
Gender Confirmation Surgery
Gender Reassignment Surgeries
Gender Reassignment Surgery
Gender-Affirming Surgery
Sex Change Surgeries
Sex Change Surgery
Sex Reassignment Surgeries



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