206A Fibrocystic Dis., Breast (low)
There is a great variability in the microscopic appereance depending on which manifestation of the disease dominates. Basic morphologic changes are cysts, apocrine metaplasia, fibrosis of the stroma, calcification, chronic inflammation, epithelial hyperplasia and fibroadenomatoid change.
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