swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
Objective: To determine the influence of testicular lymphatic obstruction on quantitative histology of the intrinsic structure of rat testis.
Secondary lymphangiectasia may be caused by granulomas or cancer causing lymphatic obstruction, or increased central venous pressure (CVP) causing abnormal lymph drainage.
Chronic, often extreme enlargement and hardening of cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue, especially of the legs and external genitals, resulting from lymphatic obstruction and usually caused by infestation of the lymph glands and vessels with a filarial worm.
