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Enlarged testicular veins
This occurs in 15% of the adult population and is not typically visible until after puberty. It is almost always on the left side, and if seen on the right additional evaluation needs to be performed. It is more common in men with infertility and if treated can reverse the infertility.
Dr. Brian Sperling reviewed this
16 year experience in Urology
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A 49-year old asked:
How is enlarged testicular veins treated?
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: enlarged testicular veins?
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A 19-year old female asked about a 23-year old male:
Husband has low count, 23 yo. Has enlarged left testicular veins. How do we go about getting checked for variocele? And variocele surgery?
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A 17-year old male asked:
Testicular ultrasound found hydrocele. Sometimes I also feel a lump(like one enlarged vein)Could hydrocele be compressing vein causing it to enlarge?
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A 20-year old male asked:
Nurse gave me a ultrasound to check for testicular cancer because left side veins were enlarged and said it isn't Cancer. Is it something serious?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Why my testicular veins swells and hurts when touched while and after urination? What is the cause?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Masturbated last night and a kind of a burning/heavy feeling on the right side of testicular vein. Is it normal?
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A 21-year old male asked:
Varicocelectomy laparoscopic. Testicular vein clipped. Is it compatible with MRI?
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A 30-year old male asked:
I have a testicular cyst and varicoule vein in testicles also does either one effect having children:?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Right side testicular vein swelling and pelvic pain. When vein swell and do pelvic massage it go immediately and again swells when stopped massaging?
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A 17-year old male asked:
Squishy lump on bottom of testicle. It feels like it's full of veins, and i never notice it there before. Is this a testicular lump?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Can testicular veins swells and painful when before and after passing urine if a person is having chronic prostatitis? How it can be treated?
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A 19-year old male asked:
Varicocele ( i think ) on the left side. Age 19. No noticeable discomfort . Left testicular atrophy. Palpable veins do i need to worry? Risks?
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A 24-year old male asked:
A mild dilation at left side testicular veins at 2.9mm. Is it varicoceles? Does this needs to be corrected? If left untreated does it affect fertility
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A 22-year old male asked:
I am experiencing testicular pain (quality: persistent discomfort) . After i kept my phone under my testicles for 1hour. I also have some black veins?
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A 24-year old male asked:
My both testicular veins swells when i urinate. Does I have reflux of the urine into ejaculatory duct? If yes, then how it can be treated?
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A 24-year old male asked:
When i pee/pass stool my both side testicular veins swells. I can feel one vein each side swells size of a straw and right side veins tenders?Why?
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A 17-year old male asked:
I'm worried I have testicular cancer, I have researched and found that varicocele is a possibility, it is in the vein of my right testicle and aches?
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A 24-year old male asked:
I engaged in sex 5 days after laparoscopic ligation of bilateral testicular veins to treat varicocele. Thereafter I experienced unbearable pain in groin area. What is the probable cause of pain? Did I interfere with the recovery process?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Us reveals normal epididymis but sometimes my right epididymis & testicular vein swells and tender when touched. Pus cells in semen 10-15 hpf. ?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Dragging feeling on bladder area and inside scrotum and sometime swollen testicular vein only after peeing. What is it? Something serious?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Urinating urgency, swelling in right sided vas-deferense, testicular veins and epididymis, this immediately happens after urination once in a day. ?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Pre and post urination pain on bladder area mostly on right side near testicular veins, inflammation in right testis vein and pain after urination. ?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Does inguinal (groin) hernia causes testicular vein dilation or pain & swelling in testicular veins?
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A 24-year old male asked:
E.Coli in urine culture indicates what? Pain in testis and sometimes swelling in right testicular veins+hard&tender epididymis when urinate/pass stool
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A 21-year old male asked:
Saw the urologist finally. During exam he said I had a double varicocele which is causing the testicular atrophy. It could also be causing the low libido and ed. Would surgical correction of the varicose veins in the testicle reverse the atrophy ?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Why only sometimes i notice the veins of the back of my hands are more visible and enlarged looking? I'm only in my 20's.
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A 75-year old female asked:
What does it mean if you have enlarged veins?
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A 48-year old asked:
What causes an enlarged jugular vein?
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A 28-year old female asked about a 31-year old :
White bumb on sclera, pain, enlarged veins ?
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