Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Prostatitis

In chronic prostatitis complaints of patients are diverse. Thus, often the disease is erroneously diagnosed as chronic cystitis, prostatomegaly, neurogenic cystitis, etc. Leader describes that chronic prostatitis is a stagnant uninfectious lesion resulting from an inflammation in the past. However, in many cases organisms are not detectable or, if detected, cannot be precisely related to the disease. Moreover, there are patients who complain of various symptoms even though tests reveal no abnormal findings in urine, prostatitc secretion, etc., thus making the diagnosis more difficult.