| Male genital disease | |
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| Specialty |
Urology 
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A male genital disease is a condition that affects the male reproductive system. The human male genitals consists of testes and epididymides, ductus deferentes, seminal vesicles and ejaculatory ducts, prostate, bulbourethral glands, and penis.
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.
Inflammation
An example of a male genital disease is orchitis.
Classification by location of disease
Penis
- Mondor's disease is a non-common disease
- 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
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 (which is the accumulation of malignant cells in the gland)