erratum

The authors present an interesting assessment of prepubertal boys who have been labelled with a diagnosis of chronic prostatitis (CP). Few of these children actually had a degree of pain or discomfort that would be sufficient for most physicians to identify them as having CP. As these children had voiding symptoms as the primary presentation and not pain, I suspect they would have been diagnosed with a dysfunctional voiding syndrome by most urologists. Epidemiological studies in adults with CP have not yet identified (or have not yet investigated) which men are at risk of developing the syndrome of CP/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS). One can speculate that the children identified in this study might be our future patients with CP/CPPS. An important contribution to the field would be to follow these boys with dysfunctional voiding and genitourinary discomfort into adulthood, and determine if they are indeed the future patients with prostatitis. If this were true, then early intervention might be the key to preventing CP/CPPS in the adult.