Vittorio Magri, Matteo Boltri, Tommaso Cai, Roberto Colombo, Salvatore Cuzzocrea, Pieter De Visschere, Rosanna Giuberti, Clara Maria Granatieri, Maria Agnese Latino, Gaetano Larganà, Christian Leli, Giorgio Maierna, Valentina Marchese, Elisabetta Massa, Alberto Matteelli, Emanuele Montanari, Giuseppe Morgia, Kurt G Naber, Vaia Papadouli, Gianpaolo Perletti, Nektaria Rekleiti, Giorgio I Russo, Alessandra Sensini, Konstantinos Stamatiou, Alberto Trinchieri, Florian M E Wagenlehner
The modern clinical research on prostatitis started with the work of Stamey and coworkers who developed the basic principles we are still using. They established the segmented culture technique for localizing the infections in the males to the urethra, the bladder, or the prostate and to differentiate the main categories of prostatitis. Such categories with slight modifications are still used according to the NIH classification: acute bacterial prostatitis, chronic bacterial prostatitis, Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CPPS) and asymptomatic prostatitis...
January 18, 2019: Archivio Italiano di Urologia, Andrologia