Difference between revisions of "Prostate gland"

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*Common.
*Common.
*Usu. secondary to BCG treatment of bladder cancer.
*Usu. secondary to BCG treatment of bladder cancer.
*Several classification exist<ref name=pmid17092284>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Uzoh | first1 = CC. | last2 = Uff | first2 = JS. | last3 = Okeke | first3 = AA. | title = Granulomatous prostatitis. | journal = BJU Int | volume = 99 | issue = 3 | pages = 510-2 | month = Mar | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.06585.x | PMID = 17092284 | URL = http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.06585.x/full }}</ref> - the most commonly used is by ''Epstein & Hutchins''.


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Epstein & Hutchins classification:<ref name=pmid6432674>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Epstein | first1 = JI. | last2 = Hutchins | first2 = GM. | title = Granulomatous prostatitis: distinction among allergic, nonspecific, and post-transurethral resection lesions. | journal = Hum Pathol | volume = 15 | issue = 9 | pages = 818-25 | month = Sep | year = 1984 | doi =  | PMID = 6432674 }}</ref>
*BCG treatment effect.
#Non-specific.
*Infectious (tuberculosis, fungal).
#*No cause identified, usu. incidentally discovered.
*Foreign body/traumatic (post-TURP).
#After TURP.
#Specific.
#*Identifiable infectious agents, usu. BCG (in the context of treating bladder cancer), rarely tuberculosis and even more rarely various fungi and [[syphilis]].
#Allergic granulomatous prostatitis.
#*Usually associated with eosinophils.
#*Examples:
#*#[[Wegener granulomatosis]].
#*#[[Churg-Strauss syndrome]].


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