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Prostatitis is a contentious subject in urology. The term is often used for younger patients with urinary or prostatic symptoms although frequently the microbiological evidence for such a diagnosis is somewhat tenuous; one rarely sees histopathological material from such cases.
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Ansell, I.D. (1985). Prostate — Inflammatory Conditions. In: Atlas of Male Reproductive Pathology. Current Histopathology, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4868-6_15
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