The NIH consensus concept of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome compared with traditional concepts of nonbacterial prostatitis and prostatodynia

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 301-306

  Krieger, John N ^a   Ross, Susan O ^a   Deutsch, Leslie ^a   Riley, Donald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis; Chronic Prostatitis; Pelvic Pain Syndrome; Prostatic Secretion; Prostatitis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PROSTATE; PROSTATITIS; SECRETION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERM; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES, NIH; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; PELVIC PAIN; PROSTATE; PROSTATITIS; SEMEN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0036672903     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-002-0054-z     Document Type: Article

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