In men, gonorrhea can result in symptomatic urethritis, epididymitis, and prostatitis. |
In chronic epididymitis, the epididymus is thickened and focally echogenic and may have calcifications. |
Males with an untreated infection are at risk of epididymitis and, rarely, infertility. |
A salpingitis has the same effect in causing sterility in the female as has an epididymitis in the male. |
In men, untreated infections can result in epididymitis and rare cases of infertility. |
With advanced epididymitis, small abscesses are occasionally seen as complex hypoechoic collections in the epididymis. |