Although ongoing postoperative pain was common among men who underwent no-scalpel vasectomy, most patients were sufficiently managed with a conservative treatment approach. Approximately 10% of ...

If you have a conventional vasectomy, you may have a small scar where the incision was made. This scar is usually hard to see. No-scalpel vasectomies leave minimal or no scarring. Post-vasectomy ...

A scalpel vasectomy may increase the incidence of post-vasectomy pain compared to non-scalpel vasectomy, although rates of PVPS may be similar with both procedures. Authors of a 2020 literature ...

Neel Parekh, MD, is a board-certified urologist and male infertility and men’s health specialist in the Department of Urology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He has presented at both ...