General clinical examination

Diagnostic value (5)

Some of the symptoms referred in the course of prostatitis may be caused by other pathologies which must be eliminated in the differential diagnosis. To be excluded are:

• incomplete or complete inguinal or crural hernia which can cause inguinal or suprapubic pain;

• hemorrhoids, perianal fistulas or rhagades which can cause anal or perianal soreness or pain;

• torn muscles which in young men can cause pubic or crural pain;

• epidydimitis or varicocele can induce testicular soreness and heaviness;