Chronic scrotal pain syndrome: Management among urologists in Switzerland

European Urology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 812-816

  Strebel, Raeto T ^a   Leippold, Thomas ^a   Luginbuehl, Thomas ^a   Muentener, Michael ^a   Praz, Valentin ^a   Hauri, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chronic epididymitits; Chronic orchialgia; Epididymectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONIC SCROTUM PAIN SYNDROME; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INGUINAL REGION; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; ORCHIECTOMY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCROTUM DISORDER; SPERMATIC CORD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWITZERLAND; URINALYSIS; UROLOGIC EXAMINATION; VASECTOMY;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PELVIC PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCROTUM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SWITZERLAND; UROLOGY; VASECTOMY;

EID: 19744370678     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2005.01.003     Document Type: Article

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