Chronic prostatitis

Chronic prostatitis - an ambiguous term that can refer either to the so-called chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (which constitutes about 90-95% of all chronic prostatitis cases) or to chronic bacterial prostatitis or even, rarely, to asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis.[1]

References

  1. Holt JD1 et al. Common Questions About Chronic Prostatitis. Am Fam Physician. 2016 Feb 15;93(4):290-6. PMID 26926816
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