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Proliferative Inflammatory Atrophy
A lesion in the prostate gland characterized by glandular atrophy, chronic inflammation, and epithelial hyperplasia. It has been suggested that it is a precancerous lesion and it may lead to the development of prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia and prostatic carcinoma. (NCI Thesaurus)
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