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Acute and chronic prostatitis

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Clinical Problems in Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Part of the book series: New Perspectives in Clinical Microbiology ((NPCM,volume 11))

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Most patients with prostatitis suffer from a wide variety of signs and symptoms, which render diagnosis difficult and treatment often unsuccessful [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. It has generally been accepted that prostatitis may include inflammatory reactions of the prostatic urethra (urethra posterior) and the seminal vesicles. Thus designations like prostato-vesiculitis, urethro-prostatitis and urethro-prostato-vesiculitis reflect the difficulties in separating the inflammatory response of the gland itself from similar reactions of organs in its close proximity. The former designation ‘adnexitis’ is obsolete, because inflammatory reactions of the anterior part of the urethra with discharge and especially epididymitis can be clearly separated from prostatitis, clinically as well as by laboratory tests.

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Brunner, H., Weidner, W. (1985). Acute and chronic prostatitis. In: Taylor-Robinson, D. (eds) Clinical Problems in Sexually Transmitted Diseases. New Perspectives in Clinical Microbiology, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5014-6_3

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