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Microbiological survey of acute epididymitis.
In an 18 month period, 198 men presented with a painful, swollen, and tender epididymis or testicular or scrotal pain. Fifty were excluded from analysis because of prior antibiotic treatment or a history of the disease, or both. Of the remaining patients, epididymitis was not diagnosed in 108, though 23 (21%) of them had urethritis. Thus 40 men were seen who had acute unilateral epididymitis. O...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Southern Medical Journal
سال: 1920
ISSN: 0038-4348
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-192007000-00011