fibrocystic disease of breast
n.
A benign disease common in women in their thirties, forties, and fifties, marked by small fluid-containing cysts that form in one or both breasts and associated with stromal fibrosis and variable degrees of intraductal epithelial hyperplasia and sclerosing adenosis.cystic disease of breast
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fibrochondritis, fibrochondroma, fibrocyst, fibrocystic, fibrocystic disease, fibrocystic disease of breast, fibrocystic disease of pancreas, fibrocystoma, fibrodysplasia, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, fibroelastic
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