title: [Chronic prostatitis: critical review of its current nosologic definition, classification and potential carcinogenesis].
abstract: Updated critical review of chronic prostatitis as a nosologic, anatomic-clinical entity of supposed microbiological or inflammatory origin. Scientific reasoning about the role of amicrobial inflammation in both caudal and cranial prostate, after new progresses, to reconsider the convenience of maintaining the current classification of chronic prostatitis, mainly in the section referred to "histological prostatitis". Analysis of scientific evidences relating prostatitis and "pelvic pain", the dominant syndrome in many patients and basement of the current terminological proposal: prostatitis-pelvic pain. The role of inflammation in the genesis of BPH and prostate cancer. Justification and convenience of a new term in logic consensus on prostatitis.
authors.affiliation: Cátedra de Urología de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Servicio de Urología de la Fundacion Jiménez Diaz, Departament de Anatomía Patológica de la Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, España. rvela@fjd.es
authors.forename: Remigio
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vela Navarrete
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: González Enguita
authors.forename: Juan Vicente
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: García Cardoso
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Manzarbeitia
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Soriano García
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011230:Precancerous Conditions; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D011472:Prostatitis / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis