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Testicular calcification significantly affects the reproductive health of men. Currently, testicular calcification can occur in both adult men and children. The disease needs to be detected early for treatment, to avoid testicular calcification affecting sperm quality.
1. What is testicular calcification?
Testicular calcification is the deposition and appearance of calcium nodules in the testicles. This is a disease that has no symptoms and does not progress, so patients are often not detected until they feel pain in the scrotum and feel hard to the touch. Most of the patients were found to be sick on ultrasound for other diseases.
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2. Who is prone to testicular calcification?
Testicular calcification can occur in both adult men and boys. The following subjects are at risk of disease such as:
Patients with early testicular vasodilation, vascular stasis and testicular inflammation, which leads to calcification for a long time. Patients infected with viruses, bacteria affecting the genital organs such as mumps, ...
3. Is testicular calcification dangerous?
Many men are worried whether testicular calcification is dangerous or not, leading to testicular cancer. However, calcification and testicular cancer are not related, because calcification is an inflammation of the semen, while cancer is a condition in which tumors (mostly germ cell tumors) appear in the testicles. .
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4. Diagnosis and treatment of testicular calcification
Testicular calcification causes pain and affects sperm quality as well as male reproductive health. To diagnose the disease, doctors often apply ultrasound, the results show that the calcified part is white.
To limit the impact of the disease on reproductive health, patients need to be detected and treated early. Accordingly, the patient needs to be examined and monitored periodically by a specialist, to measure the volume of the testicle by ultrasound method. At the same time, the doctor may also order a semen test to assess the quality of the sperm.
Testicular calcification is a relatively rare disease, but not only adult men but children can also get it.
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