Erschienen in:
01.03.2015 | Pelvic Pain (C Payne and J Potts, Section Editors)
Male Pelvic Pain Syndrome: Escaping the Snare of Prostatocentric Thinking
verfasst von:
Jeannette M. Potts
Erschienen in:
Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports
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Ausgabe 1/2015
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Abstract
Decades of prostatocentric research and publications have hampered care for men with genital or pelvic pain syndromes who are often misdiagnosed with prostatitis. The prostatitis classification system as well as other misuse of terminology may have direct and indirect influence on physicians and lay persons alike. Taxonomy, medical culture, and gender issues perpetuate the substandard evaluation of men with this condition as well as the continued overuse of antibiotics. Because the vast majority of men with this condition have neither an infection nor a disease of the prostate gland, physicians must alter their approach to these patients. Thankfully, there is growing interest and evidence to show that male pelvic pain can and should be approached more broadly, even as a nonurological condition.