Pour faire face à la crise sanitaire, notre hôpital pédiatrique a ouvert pendant quelques semaines deux unités pour adultes atteints de Covid-19 : vingt lits de réanimation et douze lits de soins intensifs. Les trois psychologues du pôle de chirurgie ont été mobilisées pour soutenir l’équipe et les patients de l’unité de soins intensifs. Nous avons eu peu de temps pour réfléchir ensemble à la construction de ce travail inédit. Ce que nous pouvions proposer était sans cesse à réévaluer et à adapter à mesure de la découverte de cette unité qui se construisait. Bien qu’étant habituées à travailler en trinôme pour nos absences et congés, nous avons dû organiser un travail conjoint auprès des mêmes patients et de leur famille. Nous présenterons les effets cliniques du cadre de travail particulier dans lequel nous sommes intervenues. La question de l’inquiétante étrangeté a été au cœur de notre pratique, se déclinant, tant pour les patients que pour les professionnels, de la bascule dans le sentiment de désaide et de la menace invisible et planante au sentiment de sécurité dans le cadre familier de cette unité maternante.
À partir de la clinique rencontrée en chirurgie pédiatrique, les auteures proposent d’interroger les enjeux du désir, de la construction identitaire féminine, de la filiation et la fécondité complexe du travail conjoint psychologue-chirurgien.ne. Deux cas cliniques d’adolescentes présentant une excroissance génitale (nymphomégalie pour l’une et masse clitoridienne pour l’autre) illustreront ces questions.
A major complication of feminizing genitoplasty in children is the loss of clitoral sensation with serious impact at adult life. We suggest a new method to evaluate the surgical results during childhood based on the bulbocavernosus or clitoro-perineal reflex (CPR). The afferent pathway of CPR implies the intact sensory receptors on the clitoral glans. Girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia who were followed-up medically without surgery or who underwent feminizing genitoplasty with or without clitoroplasty were included (2002–2018). All clitoroplasties were standardized reduction clitoroplasty with preservation of neurovascular bundles associated with vaginoplasty and vestibuloplasty. Standardized examinations were prospectively performed including the CPR starting at one year postoperatively. The reflex was triggered by gentle touch of the glans by a cotton swab. Contraction of the perineal muscles was considered positive. Thirty-two children were operated at a median age of 8.6 months (5.8–12.1). Median follow-up (FU) was 3.9 years (1.3–6.4). Twenty-four patients had clitoroplasties: 17 were tested for CPR at one-year FU, and all had a positive test. Eight girls had genitoplasty without clitoral surgery, two of them were tested and were positive. Ten patients were managed without surgery, two of them were tested for the CPR and were positive. The reflex was always triggered easily and repeated at least twice during the FU. The clitoro-perineal reflex is a simple, non-invasive and reproducible test in early childhood and may serve as an early evaluation tool of clitoral innervation after feminizing genitoplasty. These results need to be confirmed at long term and completed at adult life.
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