RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The four categories of prostatitis: A practical approach to treatment
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 389
OP 397
VO 68
IS 5
A1 Potts, Jeannette M.
YR 2001
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/68/5/389.abstract
AB To diagnose prostatitis correctly and select appropriate therapy, one should use the Meares-Stamey technique for culturing urine and prostatic secretions and apply the classification system for prostatitis devised by the National Institutes of Health. The continuing search for an effective therapy for the most common type, chronic abacterial prostatitis, has led to adoption of treatments from other specialties and reevaluation of standard treatments.