As you can see from the diagram, it's a complicated system and a lot can go wrong.
Cancers of the Male Reproductive System
- Carcinoma of the penis, also known as penile cancer
- Testicular cancer is a cancer that develops in the testes
- Prostate cancer is cancer that develops in the prostate
Conditions and Diseases of the Glans Penis and Foreskin
- Balanitis – inflammation of the glans penis or bulb of the penis
- Frenulum breve is a condition where the elastic band of tissue under the glans penis, which connects to the foreskin cannot fully retract
- Paraphimosis is when the foreskin cannot be pulled over the glans penis
- Phimosis is when the foreskin cannot be retracted from the glans penis
Conditions and Diseases of the Testes
- Cryptorchidism, which is the absence of one or both testes
- Epididymitis, inflammation of the epididymis, a gland that stores semen
- Hydrocele, fluids around the testes
- Orchitis, inflammation and swelling of the testes
- Testicular torsion is when the spermatic cord that goes to a testes twists, cutting off the blood supply to the testicle
- Spermatocele is a cyst filled with spermatozoa on the testes
- Varicocele is an enlarged vein, which results in blood flowing the wrong way from the testes
Other Conditions and Diseases of the Male Reproductive System
- Epispadias, a rare malformation of the penis
- Erectile dysfunction or ED, the inability to maintain an erection successfully
- Hypospadias, when the urinary opening is not correctly placed
- Infertility, the inability to successfully contribution to reproduction
- Micropenis is an unusually small penis
- Penile fracture is actually a ruptured tunica albuginea, the structure that that surrounds the corpus cavernosum
- Peyronie’s disease is inflammation and fibroids that result in an extreme curvature to the male penis
- Prostatitis, inflammation of the prostate gland
If you're not already sick, don't make yourself crazy looking over the descriptions.
