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Editor-In-Chief: Patrick Foye, MD, Professor, and Director, Coccyx Pain Center, New Jersey Medical School [1]
Overview
Coccygectomy is surgery to remove the coccyx.
In humans, coccygectomy is the treatment of last resort for coccydynia, but a required treatment for sacrococcygeal teratoma and other germ cell tumors involving the coccyx.
To preserve normal defecation, coccygectomy normally is accompanied by re-attachment (also known as re-approximation) of the two levator ani muscles and of the perineum, parts of the pelvic floor. In adults who undergo coccygectomy, but not in babies and young children, one infrequent complication is a later perineal hernia.[1][2]
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Template:Operations and other procedures on the musculoskeletal system
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