Seminal vesicle abscess: Diagnosis by transrectal ultrasound

✍ Scribed by Suzanne B. Lee; Fred Lee; M. Hugh Solomon; Glen H. Kumasaka; William H. Straub; Richard D. McLeary

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 285 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.1870140709

✦ Synopsis

Seminal vesiculitis is probably a common infection, frequently occurring with prostatitis and infection of the ejaculatory ducts. The frequency of occurrence of seminal vesiculitis, however, remains unknown because of the difficulty of diagnosis by clinical and routine noninvasive diagnostic modalities.' At present, the diagnosis of inflammation of the seminal vesicles has been based on clinical suspicion and managed empirically with antibiotics2 Because of the anatomic location, ab-From the