Medical Evaluation and Management of Erectile Dysfunction Erectile dysfunction (ED) has been defined as the inability to achieve or maintain a penile erection sufficient for satisfactory sexual intercourse. A survey…
Evaluation of Scrotal Pain, Masses, and Swelling A mass, generalized enlargement, or acute pain involving the scrotum may be noted by the patient or discovered incidentally on physical examination. Patients…
Evaluation of the Patient with Proteinuria Hasan Bazari Proteinuria may be an asymptomatic finding in an apparently healthy patient or a key diagnostic or prognostic finding in a patient who…
Evaluation of the Patient with Hematuria Leslie S.-T. Fang Virtually every disease of the genitourinary tract can produce hematuria. The primary physician may encounter a patient with gross hematuria or…
Screening for Cancers of the Lower Urinary Tract Lower urinary tract cancers include tumors of the renal pelves, ureters, bladder, and urethra. These lesions can logically be considered together because…
Screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infection Efforts to detect and treat asymptomatic bacteriuria are based on the assumption that treatment reduces the likelihood of subsequent morbidity from symptomatic…
Screening for Prostate Cancer Michael J. Barry Prostate cancer is a common cause of morbidity and mortality among older men in the United States. The lifetime probability of a man…
Screening for Chlamydial Infection Benjamin Davis Chlamydia trachomatis is responsible for an estimated 4 million cases of genitourinary tract infection each year in the United States. Transmission is by sexual…
Screening for Syphilis The prevalence of syphilis in the United States began to decline with the introduction of penicillin therapy in the 1940s, falling to about 7,000 cases in 1956….
Management of the Woman with Genital Tract Cancer Annekathryn Goodman Cancers of the genital tract account for about 20% of cancer diagnoses and 10% of cancer deaths in women in…
