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Prostatitis is an inflammation of the prostate that can be produced by various agents, principally bacterial infections. The diagnosis of prostatitis is complex and can be frustrating, both for the patient and for the physician, since in many cases the symptoms are non-specific and hard to control.
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Sotelo, R., Potts, J. (2015). Prostatitis—Pelvic Pain. In: Sotelo, R., Arriaga, J., Azhar, R., Gill, I. (eds) Prostate Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05600-5_5
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