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A Las Vegas man is 132lbs lighter after undergoing surgery to remove a severely enlarged scrotum.
Wesley Warren Jr. drew international attention last year for the mass that made his day-to-day life a nightmare.
But he is now recovering after a team of surgeons in California spent nearly 13 hours operating on the 48-year-old for free.
The mass caused by the condition, known as scrotal lymphedema, had grown to 132 pounds in less than two years.
he Las Vegas man last year seemed to be basking in the fame that his giant organ had brought him after an initial interview with the Review Journal.
It was even said the attention was the reason he initially turned down Gelman's offer to perform the $1 million corrective surgery because he would have had to give up the rights to his story.
A second doctor also agreed to waive most of the cost for the procedure but Warren said he stalled because of his fear of bleeding out on the operating table.
The watermelon-size scrotum Warren carried between his legs landed him on the Howard Stern Show and Comedy Central and made him a local celebrity in his hometown.
He had to wear a hooded sweatshirt on his legs when he was out in public to contain his enormous scrotum. His penis was buried so deeply in the abnormal growth that he was forced to urinate on himself.
He only wanted to urinate like a normal man and have a romantic relationship with a woman, he said.
The massive swelling is caused by fluid building up in his scrotum. Doctors had to remove the excess tissue and then completely rebuild his scrotum.
There was also a chance that complications could force the surgeons to cut off his genitals if his scrotum didn't stop bleeding.
The extremely rare condition is much more common in Africa and Southeast Asia, where it is caused by parasites, than it is in the western world.
A Las Vegas man is 132lbs lighter after undergoing surgery to remove a severely enlarged scrotum.
Wesley Warren Jr. drew international attention last year for the mass that made his day-to-day life a nightmare.
But he is now recovering after a team of surgeons in California spent nearly 13 hours operating on the 48-year-old for free.
The mass caused by the condition, known as scrotal lymphedema, had grown to 132 pounds in less than two years.
he Las Vegas man last year seemed to be basking in the fame that his giant organ had brought him after an initial interview with the Review Journal.
It was even said the attention was the reason he initially turned down Gelman's offer to perform the $1 million corrective surgery because he would have had to give up the rights to his story.
A second doctor also agreed to waive most of the cost for the procedure but Warren said he stalled because of his fear of bleeding out on the operating table.
The watermelon-size scrotum Warren carried between his legs landed him on the Howard Stern Show and Comedy Central and made him a local celebrity in his hometown.
He had to wear a hooded sweatshirt on his legs when he was out in public to contain his enormous scrotum. His penis was buried so deeply in the abnormal growth that he was forced to urinate on himself.
He only wanted to urinate like a normal man and have a romantic relationship with a woman, he said.
The massive swelling is caused by fluid building up in his scrotum. Doctors had to remove the excess tissue and then completely rebuild his scrotum.
There was also a chance that complications could force the surgeons to cut off his genitals if his scrotum didn't stop bleeding.
The extremely rare condition is much more common in Africa and Southeast Asia, where it is caused by parasites, than it is in the western world.