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Steven Doerr, MD

Steven Doerr, MD

Steven Doerr, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician. Dr. Doerr received his undergraduate degree in Spanish from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He graduated with his Medical Degree from the University Of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado in 1998 and completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine from Denver Health Medical Center in Denver, Colorado in 2002, where he also served as Chief Resident.

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William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR

William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR

Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.

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In this Article

• Testicular pain facts
• What is testicular pain (pain in the testicles)?
• What function do the testicles have?
• What causes testicular pain?
• Testicular torsion causes
• Epididymitis causes
• Torsion of a testicular appendage causes
• Trauma causes
• Inguinal hernia causes
• Orchitis causes
• Kidney stone causes
• Testicular tumor causes
• What are the signs and symptoms of conditions causing testicular pain?
• How are the causes of testicular pain diagnosed?
• What is the treatment for testicular pain?
• What are the complications of the conditions causing testicular pain?
• How can testicular pain be prevented?
• Patient Comments: Testicular Pain - Cause
• Find a local Urologist in your town
• Testicular Disorders Index

The complications associated with the different causes of testicular pain may include the following.

Testicular torsion complications

• permanent damage to the testicle
• loss of testicle
• infertility
• infection
• cosmetic deformity

Epididymitis complications

• epididymo-orchitis
• abscess (a collection of pus) formation
• impaired fertility
• systemic blood infection (sepsis)

Torsion of a testicular appendage complications

• no significant complications exist

Trauma complications

• permanent damage to the testicle
• atrophy (decrease in size) of the testicle
• loss of testicle
• infertility
• abscess formation
• cosmetic deformity
• testicular torsion

Inguinal hernia complications

• incarceration (hernia unable to be pushed back in)
• strangulation (disruption to the blood supply of the intestine protruding through the abdominal wall defect)

Orchitis complications

• atrophy of the testicle
• impaired fertility
• abscess formation

Kidney stone complications

• permanent kidney damage
• urosepsis (systemic blood infection arising from infected urine)

Testicular tumor complications

• The complications of a testicular tumor vary depending on the underlying type of tumor and the extent of disease.