Genital gender-affirming surgery trends in Germany: Total population data with 19,600 cases from 2006 to 2022.

Purpose: To delineate the current trends regarding gender-affirming surgeries (GAS) in Germany.

Methods: Analysis of German hospital quality reports from 2006 to 2022 was conducted using the reimbursement.info tool.

Restoration of the Lost Obscured Coronal Sulcus: A Novel Surgical Technique for Penile Lichen Sclerosus with Severe Preputial Adhesions.

Background: Lichen sclerosus (LS) may cause the glans and prepuce to become fused, making a standard circumcision impossible. Most authorities recommend excision of the fused area with glans resurfacing, although partial circumcision is often performed.

Objective: To evaluate an alternative technique that preserves the fused area and allows a complete circumcision without grafting.

Follicular histotypes of oncocytic thyroid carcinomas do not carry mutations of the BRAF hot-spot.

Background: The BRAF V600E mutation is the most prevalent genetic aberration in papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTCs), and it is found exclusively in RET/PTC-negative tumors. In oncocytic (Hürthle cell, oxyphilic) thyroid tumors, the presence of RET/PTC rearrangements is associated with either the conventional papillary histotype or the "solid" Hürthle cell tumors, whereas all predominantly follicular oncocytic carcinomas do not harbor RET/PTC chimeras. Although 12% of tumors of the follicular variant of PTC carry BRAF mutations, none of the few oncocytic follicular thyroid adenomas (oncoAd) or carcinomas (oncoFTC) published worldwide tested positive.