Chronic prostatitis and the chronic pelvic pain syndrome

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 355, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1690-1698

  Schaeffer, Anthony J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFUZOSIN; ALLOPURINOL; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXAZOSIN; FINASTERIDE; GABAPENTIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LOMEFLOXACIN; MEPARTRICIN; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; PENTOSAN POLYSULFATE; POLLEN EXTRACT; QUERCETIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ROFECOXIB; SABAL EXTRACT; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; TAMSULOSIN; TERAZOSIN;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD DYSCRASIA; CHRONIC PROSTATITIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVULSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; EJACULATION DISORDER; FATIGUE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEADACHE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPOTENSION; IMPOTENCE; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER NECROSIS; NAUSEA; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURE EJACULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RASH; RESTLESSNESS; RHINITIS; TENDON RUPTURE; TRANSURETHRAL MICROWAVE THERMOTHERAPY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; URTICARIA; VOMITING; ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PROSTATITIS; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; PELVIC PAIN; PROSTATITIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 33750049670     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp060423     Document Type: Article

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