An algorithm for the treatment of chronic testicular pain

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 330-336

  Heidelbaugh, Joel J ^a   Llanes, Mikel ^a   Weadock, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GABAPENTIN; IBUPROFEN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORTRIPTYLINE; PARACETAMOL; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANALGESIA; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ANESTHESIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHRONIC SCROTAL PAIN; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DENERVATION; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMAL CYST; EPIDIDYMECTOMY; EPIDIDYMITIS; EXERCISE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GONORRHEA; GOUT; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; MICROSURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NERVE COMPRESSION; ORCHIECTOMY; ORCHITIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PROSTATITIS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; SCROTUM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SITTING; SPERMATIC CORD BLOCK; SPERMATOCELE; SWELLING; TESTIS; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS INJURY; TESTIS TORSION; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TUMOR; VARICOCELE; VASECTOMY; VASOVASOSTOMY;

ALGORITHMS; AMINES; ANALGESICS; ANESTHETICS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DENERVATION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; ORCHIECTOMY; PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTURE; SCROTUM; SPERMATIC CORD; TESTIS; VASECTOMY;

EID: 77953762818     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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