開創性的手術中,天生無陰道女子用自己的腸子做成了生殖器

A Chinese woman who was born without a vagina reportedly underwent surgery yesterday to have a man-made genital organ made.

據報道，一位天生沒有陰道的華裔女子昨天進行手術，植入人造生殖器官。

She hoped the surgery could allow her to finally start dating and eventually have her own family.

她希望手術後有人約會，並最終建立起自己的家庭。

Surgeons from north-west China's Shaanxi Province took a section of the patient's small intestine and used it to make her a vagina.

來自中國西北陝西省的外科醫生把病人一段小腸切下，以此製成她的陰道。

Rokitansky Syndrome or MRKH (Mayer Rokitansky Küster Hauser) is a congenital abnormality characterised by the absence of the vagina womb and cervix.

羅基坦斯基綜合徵或MRKH (Mayer Rokitansky Küster Hauser) 是一種沒有陰道、子宮和子宮頸的先天性異常。

Women suffering from the condition will have normally functioning ovaries so will experience the normal signs of puberty - but will not have periods or be able to conceive.

患有這種病的女性有正常的卵巢，因此有正常的青春期，但沒有月經週期，也無法懷孕。

The external genatalia are completely normal which is why MRKH isn't usually discovered until women are in their teenage years.

外陰部是完全正常的，所以這種綜合徵通常只有在女性青春期時才被發現。

Many women are able to create a vaginal canal using dilation treatment which uses cylinder shaped dilators of different sizes to stretch the muscles.

很多患這種症狀的女性無法通過擴張治療來創造一個陰道腔，這種治療方法指的是用不同尺寸的圓筒狀擴張器來伸展肌肉。

Following treatment women are able to have intercourse and can have their eggs removed and fertilised to be used in surrogacy.

但是如果這個手術不成功，將進行陰道拉伸手術。

A doctor claimed that only two similar operations had been carried out in the world to treat patients with the same condition.

治療後婦女能夠性交，並且能夠將她們的卵子取出受精供代孕。

A nurse checked the patient known as Zhang who has undergone the pioneering surgery

一名醫生聲稱，用類似的手術治療此類病人，全世界只進行過兩次。