The Sheares vaginoplasty (or Sheares neovaginoplasty) is a surgical operation pioneered by Professor Benjamin Sheares, a Singaporean obstetrician and gynaecologist who served as the second President of Singapore for 10 years. In the technique, the space between the two labia is dilated with a Hegar's dilator along the vestigial Mullerian ducts. Thus, two tunnels are created and the central septum is excised to form a single vagina. A mould covered with amnion is placed in the neovagina.
The Sheares method of vaginoplasty is an easy and safe method to create a neovagina with the least complications such as injury to the urinary bladder and rectum or bleeding.
The technique has been used to effectively treat the Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome, one of the most common causes of primary amenorrhoea associated with vaginal atresia and an absent uterus despite the presence of normal ovaries and external genitalia.
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This article was written by Roy Tan.