Modern Concepts of Infections of the Prostate

Mise en évidence des cellules inflammatoires dans le sperme

“…Le diagnostic et le suivi de l'~volution des infections g~nitales chroniques, restent difficiles m~me en multipliant les examens, comme la numeration des leucocytes dans le sperme ou dans les s~cr~tions apr~s massage prostatique [12], la culture bact~rien-ne [18,19], le taux d'immunoglobuline A [7,20] et l'immuno~l~ctrophor~se [21]. Parmi les dift~rents examens, la numeration des polynucl~aires (PN), est la plus souvent utilisle dans la pratique quotidienne ~ cause de sa simplicitY, mais son importance et les limites de normalit~ des polynucl~aires restent controversies ~8, 25].…”

Macrophages in Prostatic Fluid

“…Frozen sections of prostatic tissue from patients with chronic prostatitis revealed similar cells Diagnosis and assessment on follow-up of cases of chronic prostatitis remain difficult even with the examination of the PF by leucocyte count (Farman and McDonald, 1959) and culture (Meares and Stamey, 1968;Drach, 1974), and examination of the seminal fluid by culture (Schnierstein, 1964;Mobley, 1975), immunoglobulin level (Nishimura et al, 1977a), immunoelectrophoresis (Nishimura et al, 1977b) and prostatic biopsy (Drach, 1974). Of these various examinations, leucocyte count of the PF is most widely used in daily practice because of its simplicity, but its significance remains controversial (Mobley, 1974).…”