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Prostatitis
Aka: Prostatitis
- See Also
- Prostatitis Management
- Acute Prostatitis
- Chronic Prostatitis
- Nonbacterial Prostatitis
- Prostadynia
- Epidemiology
- Prostatitis accounts for 25% genitourinary complaints
- Types: NIH Consensus Classification of Prostatitis
- Acute Bacterial Prostatitis
- Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis
- Chronic Pelvic Pain in Men (Nonbacterial Prostatitis or Prostatodynia)
- Inflammatory (White Blood Cells >10 per HPF)
- Non-Inflammatory
- Asymptomatic Prostatitis
- White Blood Cells >10 per HPF despite lack of symptoms
- Types: Uncommon
- Gonococcal Prostatitis (NeisseriaGonorrheae)
- Tuberculous Prostatitis (Tuberculosis)
- Parasitic Prostatitis
- Mycotic Prostatitis (Fungal organisms)
- References
- Cooner (1994) Am Fam Physician, p. 9-15
- Krieger (1999) JAMA 281(3): 236-7