The short-term complications include infection and bleeding. The long-term complications include post-vasectomy pain syndrome and sperm granuloma. Bleeding and [simple_tooltip text=hematoma tooltip=Accumulation of clotted blood outside a blood vessel ] occur due to an injury caused to the [simple_tooltip text=pampiniform venous plexus tooltip=A network of small veins present in the human male spermatic cord ]. Sperm granuloma results from the leakage of the sperm from the testicular vasal end. Post-vasectomy pain syndrome is the scrotal pain occurring after months or a year of vasectomy (10).