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.[1]
| Male genital disease | |
|---|---|
| Specialty | Urology  |
Classification by type of disease
Infection
Aetiological agents
Bacterial
Fungus
Parasites
Virus
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.[3]
Inflammation
An example of a male genital disease is orchitis.[citation needed]
Classification by location of disease
Penis
- Mondor's disease is a non-common disease[4]
- 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[5]
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), cancer[6] (which is the accumulation of malignant cells in the gland)[7]