Stesura Seveso


Lucio Dell’Atti
Department of Urology, University Hospital  “St.Anna”, Ferrara, Italy

Correspondence
Lucio Dell’Atti, MD, PhD
dellatti@hotmail.com

Department of Urology, University Hospital “St.Anna”
8 A. Moro Street - 44124, Ferrara, Italy

Archivio Italiano di Urologia e Andrologia 2016; 88, 2154
No conflict of interest declared.

DOI: 10.4081/aiua.2016.2.154

REPLY TO THE LETTER:

We really need a classification of prostatic abscess?
KEY WORDS: Prostatic abscess; Needle aspiration; Classification.

Dear Author,
I appreciate your interest in and comments on the article titled: “A new ultrasound and clinical classification for manage-
ment of prostatic abscess” (1). In this article I don’t propose a treatment algorithm that identifies patients to be treated
or the type of treatment. I simply reported a descriptive review of the ultrasound images derived from the database of
our university referral hospital and literature case reports. Currently, there are significant gaps in managing of prostat-
ic abscesses (PA), and there is a need for a multidisciplinary approach to patient safety (2). However, a multidiscipli-
nary approach involves drawing appropriately from multiple disciplines to redefine problems, and therefore it requires
a common language. The aim of this classification was to improve a common and accurate language between multiple
disciplines, often involved in this clinical situation. The “Dell’Atti classification” does not want to reveal the exact cor-
relation between the type of PA and the type of the treatment. I perfectly known that in absence of symptoms, if a lesion
is ultrasonographically identified as a PA, the lesion should not be treated. 

REFERENCES
1. Dell’Atti L. A new ultrasound and clinical classification for management of prostatic abscess. Arch Ital Urol Androl. 2015; 87:246-9.

2. Oliveira P, Andrade JA, Porto HC, et al. Diagnosis and treatment of prostatic abscess. Int Braz J Urol. 2003; 29:30-4.