Talk:Hematospermia

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"Treatment"

The Treatment section is looking a bit strange and non-encyclopedia-like, like a doctor speaking directly to a patient. Someone might want to take a look at that.

--M

Yes, the entire text of this page was copied from http://www.askmen.com/sports/health/10_mens_health.html. It should be deleted and rewritten. --R

Causes and treatment?

--M --R : you've deleted but not re-written. I am assumuing by your unusual sigs you are part of a more inner circle than I here, so rather than edit the page may I ask the following information to be added, assuming it is accurate enough, in what is appropriate style?

Currently there are only three causes of hematospermia listed in the article: urethral stricture; infection of the prostate; and congenital bleeding disorder; and no further information is provided. Another site (http://www.medicinenet.com/blood_in_semen/page2.htm#treatment) suggests that:

> prostate biopsy is the most common cause
> other causes include tumors (benign, malignant, metastatic), polyps (urethra), cysts (seminal vesicles), infections (including, but not limited to, chlamydia, herpes, cytomegalovirus, and trichomoniasis), anatomical abnormalities, stones/calculi (seminal vesicles or prostate), or inflammation (prostate, epididymys, urethra), ejaculation-duct obstructions,
> usually blood in the semen is benign and resolves on its own
> treatment, if indicated, depends upon the underlying cause.

It also offers the following opinions. That:

> while cancer is a rare cause of blood in the semen, the majority of cases are not related to cancer, especially in younger men.
> sometimes, treatment with antibiotics for a presumptive diagnosis of prostatitis (inflammation of the prostate gland) is given, since some studies have shown that up to about one-fourth of men with hematospermia have prostatitis. However, the benefit of such treatment has not been definitively established
> hematospermia can be caused by many conditions affecting the male genitourinary system. Areas affected include the bladder, urethra, the testicles, the tubes that distribute semen from the testicles (known as the seminal vesicles), the epididymis (a segment of the spermatic ducts that serves to store, mature and transport sperm), and the prostate gland

LookingGlass (talk) 11:07, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem removed

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Thanks to Peter coxhead for flagging this, and to Biosthmors for cleaning it up. I don't think a clearly necessary article such as this would ever actually get deleted, by the way. A thought: if there's anything useful in the version before the copyvio it could still be copied into the page. I don't have the background to make that call. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:54, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]