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Many patients with prostatitis have prostatic calculi, as seen on transrectal ultrasound. Their relevance to clinical symptoms is not known.A new study from China now shows, however, that, if nothing else, the presence of stones marks (is correlated with) a lower likelihood of response to antibiotics, i.e. they mark a higher chance of treatment failure, in men with chronic bacterial prostatitis.

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