Where do we stand with chronic prostatitis? An update

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 732-736

  Khastgir, Jay ^a   Dickinson, Andrew J ^a  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BACLOFEN; CAPSAICIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; DIAZEPAM; DOXAZOSIN; FINASTERIDE; GABAPENTIN; GENTAMICIN; HEPARINOID; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; PENICILLIN G; PENTOSAN POLYSULFATE; POLLEN EXTRACT; QUERCETIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SABAL EXTRACT; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; TAMSULOSIN; TERAZOSIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PROSTATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; EJACULATORY DUCT; EXERCISE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MUELLERIAN DUCT; PANCREAS SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PROSTATE SURGERY; PROSTATECTOMY; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SEMINAL VESICLE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSURETHRAL MICROWAVE THERMOTHERAPY; TRANSURETHRAL NEEDLE ABLATION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; MALE; PROSTATITIS; SYNDROME;

ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; PELVIC PAIN; PROSTATITIS; SYNDROME;

EID: 1342309307     PISSN: 14623935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/hosp.2003.64.12.2366     Document Type: Review

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