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Testicular Denervation. A New Surgical Procedure for Intractable Testicular Pain
Author(s) -
CHOA R. G.,
SWAMI K.S.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
british journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 0007-1331
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-410x.1992.tb15800.x
Subject(s) - orchiectomy , medicine , testicular pain , etiology , denervation , surgery , scrotal pain , pain relief , intractable pain , chronic pain , physical therapy , scrotum
Summary— Chronic testicular pain has many different aetiologies. Identification and treatment of an underlying problem resolve the issue in most cases. However, a proportion of patients with chronic testicular pain have no demonstrable aetiological factor and pose a difficult treatment problem. All of these patients are initially treated by non‐surgical measures. Various operations advocated in the literature for non‐responders include epididymectomy, scrotal orchiectomy and inguinal orchiectomy, all of which have a significant failure rate. We describe a hitherto unreported operative procedure in a series of 4 patients, with immediate and lasting relief of their pain.