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Clinical significance of incidental prostatic fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in the diagnosis of infectious prostatitis in adult males.

We performed a Prostatitis Treatment work-up study of cancer patients with
Prostatitisincidentally found uncharacterized prostatic fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose
(F-FDG) Chronic Prostatitis uptake in F-FDG PET/CT results.
Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome Then,
we evaluated the clinical BPH Treatment significance
of the incidental prostate F-FDG uptake Blood In Semen
(IPU) in nonmalignant prostate tissues Blood in Urine.

Overall, 51 men agreed Burning While Urinating to a physical
prostate examination Difficulty Urinating and an expressed
prostatic secretion (EPS) Pain While Urinating
test within 2 weeks after torso F-FDG PET/CT scans. Frequent Urination We then
reviewed the F-FDG PET/CT Painful Ejaculation scans of the enrolled
patients Prostatitis Antibiotics
and evaluated the relationship between the F-FDG PET/CT, Treatment of Prostatitis prostate-specific antigen,
and prostatic laboratory findings Chronic Prostatitis Symptoms.

The Prostatic Hypertrophypathological diagnosis of five
men indicated the presence of prostate cancer, Nonbacterial Prostatitis and
of the remaining 46 men, 27 cases showed IPU in the F-FDG PET/CT whereas 19 did not Causes of Prostatitis . The characteristics
of the enrolled patients were as follows Amoxicillin Prostatitis:
mean age of 61.15±13.79 years (range: 30-83 years),Treatment for BPH maximum
standardized uptake value of 2.64±1.33 (range: 1.2-7.1),
and prostate-specific antigen of 3.10±3.50?ng/ml (range: 0.16-13.55?ng/ml).
Ten of the 27 (37%) patients with IPU in the PET/CT scan showed bacterial infections in their prostate.
A multivariate analysis indicated that Prostatitis Diet the bacterial presence
in the EPS increased the risk of IPU Doxycycline Prostatitis (adjusted odds
ratio: 9.167; P=0.019) BPH Symptoms.

Bacterial presence Prostatitis Cure in the prostate tends
to increase the likelihood of IPU in F-FDG PET/CT scans.
Therefore, men with incidental prostate F-FDG uptake should be considered for a possible prostate
infection in addition to a concomitant malignancy.
Prostatectomy