Anybody find out they had a testicular tumor after they remove your testicles? I just got the pathology results and found out that I had a tumor in my left testicle and didn't know it also both testicles had infarctions that killed the right one and was killing the left one. It was very painful.

I'm not a doctor but you may have caused the infarctions, that is, stopped the blood flow, with your calcium chloride injections into each of your balls. You posted that you injected 1.5 ml. of calcium chloride into each ball, but I'm not sure how many times, and you also posted that calcification had been found throughout the ball that was removed first.

Chesley, I didn't finish my thought in my earlier post. I wonder if you got the calcium chloride into structures other than your balls when you injected, and if that's what caused your many complications. Others who have used CaCl2 injections have posted comments suggesting that you need to be careful to only inject it inside the testicle, and to hold the needle in place for a while and be careful withdrawing the needle so that little or no CaCl2 is deposited in adjacent structures, like the epididymus or the layers of scrotal skin.

Chesleyt (imported) wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2019 2:24 pm Anybody find out they had a testicular tumor after they remove your testicles? I just got the pathology results and found out that I had a tumor in my left testicle and didn't know it also both testicles had infarctions that killed the right one and was killing the left one. It was very painful.

What did the pathology say about the tumor?

It was non cancerous.

I've had chronic orchitis and epididymitis for 31 years so I think the problems didn't come from the cacl because it was only in the right side about 10 days and the whole testicle was calcified on the left side it had a small tumor and that could have came from the ca cl but the pain came from severe chronic epididymitis and orchitis it was the worst case I ever had. The testicles blood flow was stopped by the pressure on the testicles because they swelled up to the size of a tennis ball and never went down so they were removed and then the patholigst said what killed them.

It was non cancerous.

Very glad to hear that. Urologists are convinced that cancerous testicular tumors should only be removed via the inguinal canal.

I had both of my testicles removed through the opening of the interlingua cannels because they were to big to do otherwise he also had to open the scrotum both times.

Chesleyt (imported) wrote: Sun May 05, 2019 6:32 pm I had both of my testicles removed through the opening of the interlingua cannels because they were to big to do otherwise he also had to open the scrotum both times.

Once the scrotum is open, why would the doctor need to push (referred to as birthing) the testicle through the inguinal canal?

During fetal development, the gonads (both ovaries and testicles) form near the kidneys. Then they move along a path through the abdomen to the groin. In males the inguinal canal is open and the testicles drop into the scrotum shortly before birth. Then, the inguinal canal seals shut.

This is the reason males are far more likely to get hernias than females. Lifting something heavy can rip through the sealed inguinal canal and allow intestines to poke through.

For testicular cancer, the urologist removes the testicle via the inguinal canal because the lymphatic system that the testicle drains into is in the abdomen where the testicle developed in the fetus. The scrotum drains into the lower lymphatic system, not the abdominal lymph nodes.

So, the logic is there is less of a chance to spread cancer to a different part of the body if the cancer is removed through the abdomen. This is such a widely accepted belief in medicine that it's seriously impossible to convince a urologist to do it any other way. I've read a few articles where urologist suggest that shoving something the size of a pecan through a sealed pathway the size of a number two pencil using brute force might actually spread cancer into the abdomen but, there are very few urologists willing to even consider that possibility.

What I don't understand in your case is if cancer wasn't suspected, why go through the inguinal canal? Especially if your testicles were larger than normal. An orchitectomy without suspesion of cancer is normall done via the scrotum.

One urologist told me that drs are usually only trained to do one method of surgery and not multiple methods. He said he would not do any method that he had not been trained to do.

Since the cause of his testicles dying was unknown to this dr, maybe he wanted to remove as much spermatic cord as possible as a preventive measure to head off any cancer or other spreading of the unknown cause that killed the balls. This would cause him to choose removal through the inguinal canals on both sides. If the balls were swelled up it would make a tight fit through the inguinal canals. But he d still need to get into the abdomen to remove the rest of the spermatic cords if he removed the gonads through the scrotum.

Maybe he did both if the inguinals were too small to fit his gonads through after he had already opened up his abdomen, tried to fit his balls thru his inguinals, and then couldn t fit the balls through the inguinal canals. Then he d need to then open the scrotum to remove the oversized balls after his abdomen was opened earlier but couldn t remove the balls in that way ?