Sometimes people mess up translations.

Maybe it’s the gutteral sounds of German.

Medline incorrectly got the lower bound of chronic pain post vasectomy as 0.5% when it should be 3%.  Here’s the correction I’ve filed with Pubmed and the original full text (in German).

PubMed link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21845426

You can find the data in Table 2.

PMID:  21845426
TITLE: Ischemic testicular necrosis following vasectomy: rare and typical complications of an outpatient procedure
PUBLISHER: Urologe A
TEXT: Late complications are chronic pain (0.5-18%), pain during sex (2.9%), hydrocele (0-4%) as well as spermatocele (1.6%)
CORRECTION: Late complications are chronic pain (3-18%), pain during sex (2.9-5%), hydrocele (0-4%) as well as spermatocele (1.6%)
NOTE:  The data in question is in Table 2 on the fourth page. I’ve attached the article for your reference.

Original journal article:  Ischemic testicular necrosis following vasectomy: rare and typical complications of an outpatient procedure

1935 VASECTOMY REVERSAL FOR POST-VASECTOMY PAIN SYNDROME: A TEN-YEAR EXPERIENCE

Ridiculously short addendum to volume 183, issue 4 of the Journal of Urology.

Vasectomy and health. Results from a large cohort study

Managed to dig up a full text copy of the 2007 paper by E.J. Pienkos on testosterone therapy for PVPS patients.

Not much data to see, and like most papers – it’s pretty thin.

Still – it’s better than only getting the abstract from PubMed.

The use of testosterone in the treatment of chronic postvasectomy pain syndrome: case report and review of the literature.