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[Chronic prostatitis: clinical and therapeutical aspects]
1Service d'Urologie-Andrologie du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire A. Le Dantec de Dakar, Sénégal.
Aim:
To insist on clinical and therapeutical aspects of chronic prostatitis.
Patients And Methods:
The authors relate a prospective study about 30 patients who were followed for chronic prostatitis. All patients were treated and followed up to 6 months.
Results:
The mean age of the patients was 31,82 years. Sixty percent of them where send by a physician after failure of medical treatment. Mean delay before consultation were 31.5 months. The main symptoms were pain (pelvic pain, perineal pain, or post ejaculatory pain). The distribution of patients according to the US NIH has shown 13 cases of category II, and 17 cases of category III. Outcome of these patients was favourable in ten cases for category II and nine cases for category III.
Conclusion:
If important efforts were realized for classification and diagnostic approach, many patients often fair to respond to treatment.
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