Genitoplasties may be reconstructive to repair injuries, and damage arising from cancer treatment, or congenital disorders, endocrine conditions, or they may be cosmetic.
[1] Genitoplasty surgery includes the following: The grafts used in genitalplasty can be an allogenic, an autograft, a xenograft, or an autologous material.
[2] Female infants born with a 46,XX genotype but have genitalia affected by congenital adrenal hyperplasia may undergo the surgical creation of a vagina.
[3] Other reasons for the surgery are to treat adrenal hyperplasia, microphallus, Mayer-Rokitansky-Kustner disorder and for women who have had a vaginectomy after malignancy or trauma.
[11] Surgeries to modify the cosmetic appearance of infants' and children's genitals are controversial due to their human rights implications.