(Current Clinical Urology.) Edited by Jeannette M. Potts. 410 pp., illustrated. Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2008. $99.50. ISBN 978-1-58829-816-4.
Disorders that cause genitourinary pain and inflammation arecommon and can be life-altering because of their effects onthe quality of life. In the preface of this book, editor JeannetteM. Potts states, "Any physician who sees men or women for signsor symptoms presenting below the umbilicus would appreciatethis comprehensive text." When the actual prevalence of someof these disorders is noted — up to 16% of men, for example,may have prostatitis-like symptoms, and a similar percentageof women may have complaints of chronic pelvic pain —it is clear that most physicians will see patients with . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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