Monday, December 21, 2009

Concretions / calculi / calcifications

These are hardened grains that can form in the bladder, prostate or ductus deferens and ejaculatorius. The composition of prostatic calculi indicates that they too are caused by reflux.(1) Small concretions occur in healthy men, but men with many or larger ones have shown improvement upon elimination of those.(2-3)

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(1) http://www.prostatitis.org/stones.html
(2) Geramoutsos I, Gyftopoulos K, Perimenis P, Thanou V, Liagka D, Siamblis D et al. Clinical correlation of prostatic lithiasis with Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndromes in Young Adults. Eur Urol 45(3):333-338, 2004.
(3) Shoskes DA, Lee CT, Murphy D, Kefer J, Wood HM. Incidence and significance of prostatic stones in men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Urology 70(2):235-238, 2007.

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