KUMJ | VOL. 5 | NO. 2 | ISSUE 18 | APRIL-JUNE, 2007

Scrotal haematoma: The most common complication of no-scalpel vasectomy
Pant PR, Sharma J, Subba S

Objective: to study the complications of no scalpel vasectomy such as scrotal haematoma, infection, scrotal sinus, and failure, recanalization, and sperm granuloma.
Materials and methods: A retrospective, descriptive study carried out in Dept. of Obs/ Gyn, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital Kathmandu Nepal.
Result: Among 926 no scalpel vasectomy clients 5(0.53%) had scrotal haematoma, 4(0.43%) with had infection,3(0.32%) had scrotal sinus; there were 2 cases each vasectomy failure who could not achieve azospermia and 2 with recanalization while there was only one case of sperm granuloma.
Conclusion: the most common complication of no-scalpel vasectomy was scrotal haematoma and other
complications are wound infection, scrotal sinus, vasectomy failure and sperm granuloma.