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Nature Clinical Practice Urology (2004) 1, 2-3
doi:10.1038/ncpuro0003  
Received 19 July 2004 | Accepted 16 August 2004

Treatment of chronic prostatitis

Richard B Alexander

Correspondence University of Maryland School of Medicine, 419 W. Redwood Street, Suite 320, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

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 ralexander@smail.umaryland.edu

Diagnosis and treatment of chronic prostatitis are presently based on unsupported assumptions and a nonvalidated classification scheme. Here, Richard Alexander summarizes research by the Chronic Prostatitis Collaborative Research Network that challenges the assumptions and indicates that ongoing empiric administration of antimicrobial drugs to men with long-standing prostatitis should be abandoned.

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