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Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia

"Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A premalignant change arising in the prostatic epithelium, regarded as the most important and most likely precursor of prostatic adenocarcinoma. The neoplasia takes the form of an intra-acinar or ductal proliferation of secretory cells with unequivocal nuclear anaplasia, which corresponds to nuclear grade 2 and 3 invasive prostate cancer.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia" by people in this website by year, and whether "Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 13 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2002 and 2006 and 2012
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