To determine whether men previously diagnosed with prostatitis also have pathology originating in the bladder.We administered the pelvic pain and urgency/frequency (PUF) questionnaire and the potassium-sensitivity test (PST) to 50 patients with prostatitis presenting in urological and primary care, and to 14 controls. In a separate control group of 22 men, the urethra was irrigated with KCl or NaCl (11 each) before and after experimental injury of the urethral mucosa.All 50 patients with prostatitis had PUF scores of > or = 7; 77
作者：C Lowell, Parsons；Matt T, Rosenberg；Pejvak, Sassani；Kamyar, Ebrahimi；James A, Koziol；Paul, Zupkas
来源：BJU international 2005 年 95卷 1期
