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Cystic Lesions

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Several terms have been applied to the condition of fibrocystic change, including mammary dysplasia, fibrocystic disease, cystic mastopathy and cystic hyperplasia.

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  1. Princess Elizabeth Hospital Le Vauquiedor St. Martin’s Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK

    Catherine N. Chinyama MBChB(Hons),FRCPath,IFCAP,LLM (Consultant Pathologist, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer)

  2. Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, England UK

    Catherine N. Chinyama MBChB(Hons),FRCPath,IFCAP,LLM (Consultant Pathologist, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer)

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Chinyama, C.N. (2014). Cystic Lesions. In: Benign Breast Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41065-9_7

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