US 11,654,027 B2
Method of surgically providing a trans-male patient with a neopenis including malleable penile inserts inside an artificial tunica
Rachael Anne Bergstrom Crabb, Saint Paul, MN (US); Neal Poucher, North Oaks, MN (US); Michael M. Witzmann, Minneapolis, MN (US); Eric Watschke, Minneapolis, MN (US); Melissa Curran-Moore, Minneapolis, MN (US); and Thomas Kubalak, Wayzata, MN (US)
Assigned to Coloplast A/S, Humlebaek (DK)
Filed by Coloplast A/S, Humlebaek (DK)
Filed on Dec. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/547,266.
Application 17/547,266 is a continuation of application No. 16/848,839, filed on Apr. 15, 2020, granted, now 11,229,518.
Application 16/848,839 is a continuation of application No. 16/517,667, filed on Jul. 22, 2019, granted, now 10,722,366, issued on Jul. 28, 2020.
Application 16/517,667 is a continuation of application No. 15/726,412, filed on Oct. 6, 2017, granted, now 10,398,558, issued on Sep. 3, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/405,300, filed on Oct. 7, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0160509 A1, May 26, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 2/26 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/26 (2013.01) [A61F 2250/0003 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
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1. A method of surgically providing a trans-male patient with a neopenis, the method comprising:
dissecting tissue away from at least an apex of a vagina to disconnect the vagina from organs and connective tissue inside of a pelvis;
inverting the vagina out of the pelvis to provide an inverted vagina by exposing an interior wall of the vagina outside of the pelvis;
providing a neopenis by inserting an implantable penile prosthesis into the inverted vagina, where the implantable penile prosthesis comprises a pair of malleable penile inserts inside an artificial tunica; and
supporting the neopenis by attaching a proximal end of the implantable penile prosthesis to a descending ramus of the pelvis.