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Table 2 Description of the details and the quality of the references included

From: Hard flaccid syndrome: state of current knowledge

Authors

Reference type

Quality assessment

Aspects discussed

Gul, 2019 [4]

Qualitative study utilizing thematic analysis of 152 online discussions from internet forums

Data limited to English literature

Selection bias of internet users

Symptoms

Initial event

Management strategies

Physiopathology diagram

Yachia, 2019 [6]

Comment on article

 

Differential diagnosis

Relation to chronic pelvis pain syndrome

Gul, 2019 [1]

4 case series

 

Symptoms

Pathophysiological mechanisms

Treatment

Gul, 2019 [3]

2 case series

 

Symptoms

Hughes, 2019 [7]

Academic web page: Urology news

HONcode seal: negative

JAMA benchmarks: 4

DISCERN score: 63

Clinical signs and symptoms

Management

Bond, 2019 [8]

Commercial web page: Pegasus Gym Blog

HONcode seal: negative

JAMA benchmarks: 2

DISCERN score: 46

Clinical presentation

Physiopathology diagram

Harville, 2018 [2]

Health professional web page: Entropy Blog

HONcode seal: negative

JAMA benchmarks: 4

DISCERN score: 49

Clinical symptoms

Pathophysiological mechanisms

Management

  1. HON Health on the Net; JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association