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Management of prostate abscess in the absence of guidelines
In contemporary practice, the number of patients presenting with prostatic abscess have significantly declined due to the widespread use of antibiotics. However, when faced with the pathology, prostatic abscess tends to pose a challenge to clinicians due to the difficulty of diagnosis and lack of gu...
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Sociedade Brasileira de Urologia
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678513/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28379661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2016.0472 |
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author | Abdelmoteleb, Haitham Rashed, Fatima Hawary, Amr |
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description | In contemporary practice, the number of patients presenting with prostatic abscess have significantly declined due to the widespread use of antibiotics. However, when faced with the pathology, prostatic abscess tends to pose a challenge to clinicians due to the difficulty of diagnosis and lack of guidelines for treatment. Treatment consists of an array of measures including parenteral broad-spectrum antibiotic administration and abscess drainage. |
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spelling | pubmed-56785132017-11-16 Management of prostate abscess in the absence of guidelines Abdelmoteleb, Haitham Rashed, Fatima Hawary, Amr Int Braz J Urol Review Article In contemporary practice, the number of patients presenting with prostatic abscess have significantly declined due to the widespread use of antibiotics. However, when faced with the pathology, prostatic abscess tends to pose a challenge to clinicians due to the difficulty of diagnosis and lack of guidelines for treatment. Treatment consists of an array of measures including parenteral broad-spectrum antibiotic administration and abscess drainage. Sociedade Brasileira de Urologia 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5678513/ /pubmed/28379661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2016.0472 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Abdelmoteleb, Haitham Rashed, Fatima Hawary, Amr Management of prostate abscess in the absence of guidelines |
title | Management of prostate abscess in the absence of guidelines |
title_full | Management of prostate abscess in the absence of guidelines |
title_fullStr | Management of prostate abscess in the absence of guidelines |
title_full_unstemmed | Management of prostate abscess in the absence of guidelines |
title_short | Management of prostate abscess in the absence of guidelines |
title_sort | management of prostate abscess in the absence of guidelines |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678513/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28379661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2016.0472 |
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