Abstract
Prostatic inflammation implies the presence of pathological infiltration of the prostate by inflammatory cells. However, the relationship of these findings with the clinical prostatitis due to infection, prostatitis-like symptoms, and imaging is not correlated. Prostatitis is defined as “a combination of acute and chronic infectious diseases (bacterial prostatitis), chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) and asymptomatic inflammations” [1]. Prevalence in population is estimated to be 12 % [2]. However, prostatitis is a heterogeneous clinical entity, and current clinical and pathological classification is reported with ultrasound correlations.
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Galosi, A.B., Quaresima, L., Montironi, R. (2017). Prostatic Inflammation. In: Martino, P., Galosi, A. (eds) Atlas of Ultrasonography in Urology, Andrology, and Nephrology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40782-1_21
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