Male accessory gland infection frequency in infertile patients with chronic microbial prostatitis and irritable bowel syndrome: Transrectal ultrasound examination helps to understand the links

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 404-411

  Vicari, Enzo ^a   Calogero, Aldo E ^a   Condorelli, Rosita A ^a   Vicari, Lucia O ^a   La Vignera, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic bacterial prostatitis; Male infertility; Semen analysis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC BACTERIAL PROSTATITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MALE ACCESSORY GLAND INFECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL HISTORY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH CHRONIC PROSTATITIS SYMPTOM INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATITIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM; REPRODUCTION; ROME III QUESTIONNAIRE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATITIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTUM; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84862542267     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: 19394640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.111.014654     Document Type: Article

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