Male genital disease
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A male genital disease is a condition that affects the male reproductive system. The human male genitals consist of testicles and epididymides, ductus deferentes, seminal vesicles and ejaculatory ducts, prostate, bulbourethral glands, and penis.{{Cite book|last1=O'Rahilly|first1=Ronan |last2=Müller|first2=Fabiola|last3=Carpenter|first3=Stanley|last4=Swenson|first4=Rand |url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humananatomy/part_6/chapter_34.html|title=BASIC HUMAN ANATOMY A Regional Study of Human Structure |publisher=Dartmouth Medical School|year=2004|language=en}}
Classification by type of disease
=Infection=
==Aetiological agents==
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===Bacterial===
===Fungus===
===Parasites===
===Virus===
- Molluscum contagiosum{{cite book|last1=Micali|first1=Giuseppe|last2=Cusini |first2=Marco|last3=Donofreo|first3=Pompeo|last4=Dinotta|first4=Franco|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZA7HBAAAQBAJ|title=Atlas of Male Genital Disorders A Useful aid for Clinical Diagnosis|publisher=Springer Verlag Italia|year=2013|isbn=978-88-470-2786-2|language=en}}
- Herpes: simplex, zoster
=Cancers=
The probability of contracting a cancerous development depends on age, ethnicity and the existence, or non-existence, of environmental causation. Unlike all other genitally situated cancers, the incidence of penis cancer is related to the sexual mode of transmission.{{cite journal |last1=Epperson|first1=W|last2=Frank|first2=W| title=Male genital cancers|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0095454305700762|journal=Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice |publisher=(W. B. Saunders Company, Elsevier) |date=1 June 1998 |volume=25 |issue=2|pages=459–472|doi=10.1016/S0095-4543(05)70076-2|pmid=9628963}}
=Inflammation=
An example of a male genital disease is orchitis.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
Classification by location of disease
=Penis=
- Mondor's disease is a non-common disease{{cite journal |title=Mondor's disease of penis: a forgotten disease|url=https://sti.bmj.com/content/81/6/480 |doi=10.1136/sti.2004.014159 |year=2009 |last1=Kumar |first1=B |last2=Narang|first2=T|last3=Radotra|first3=BD|last4=Gupta|first4=S|journal=British Medical Journal|volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=281–289 |pmc=1745052}}
- Peyronie's disease is diagnosed when there is evidence of scar tissue formation within the tunica albuginea, tissue which contributes to the maintenance of the erectile state{{cite web|url=https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/urologic-diseases/penile-curvature-peyronies-disease|title=Penile Curvature (Peyronie's Disease)|website=National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health) |date=August 2019 |access-date=9 February 2021}}
=Prostate=
The three most statistically frequently occurring diseases of the prostate gland are benign hyperplasia (a swelling of the gland, not due to cancerous accumulation), prostatitis (inflammation), and cancer{{cite web |date=2018 |url=https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/prostate-disease|title=Prostate disease|website=Better Health Channel (Department of Health of the State government of Victoria, Australia)|access-date=9 February 2021}} (which is the accumulation of malignant cells in the gland).{{cite web|url=https://www.cancer.gov/types/prostate/patient/prostate-treatment-pdq|title=Prostate Cancer Treatment (PDQ®)–Patient Version|website= U.S. Department of Health and Human Services {{!}} National Institutes of Health {{!}} National Cancer Institute |access-date=9 February 2021}}
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{{Male diseases of the pelvis and genitals}}