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adenosis

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adenosis [‚ad·ən′ō·səs]
(medicine)
Any nonneoplastic glandular disease, especially one involving the lymph nodes.


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Intrauterine diethylstilbestrol exposure and its consequences: pathologic characteristics of vaginal adenosis, clear cell adenocarcinoma, and related lesions.
However, when one of the nation's foremost breast cancer researchers examined Denise's biopsy, he discovered that the sample didn't reveal cancer but sclerosing adenosis, a benign but unusual and complicated pattern of cell growth that mimics cancer.
Vaginal epithelial changes in young women enrolled in the National Cooperative Diethylstilbestrol Adenosis (DESAD) Project.
 
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