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Hyperplasia

Known as: Hypercellularity, cellular proliferation, Hyperplasias 
An increase in the number of cells in a tissue or organ without tumor formation. It differs from HYPERTROPHY, which is an increase in bulk without an… 
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Adrenal hyperplasiaBenign Prostatic HyperplasiaBenign prostatic hypertrophyEndometrial Hyperplasia
CDISC SEND Non-Neoplastic Finding Type TerminologyCell ProliferationClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium TerminologyCondition, Preneoplastic

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Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Distinctive features of bone marrow biopsies.
Bone marrow biopsies from 30 patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), diagnosed according to accepted clinical… 
Review
1984
Review
1984
Hyperplastic (metaplastic) polyps of the colon: A histologic and histochemical study
One hundred seventy-three hyperplastic polyps removed from the colon of 146 patients were carefully examined by light microscopy… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Biology of disease. Atherosclerosis as a hyperplastic and/or neoplastic process.
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Adenocarcinoma Occurring in a Hyperplastic (Metaplastic) Polyp of the Colon
A case of adenocarcinoma occurring in a hyperplastic (metaplastic) polyp of the colon is presented. The polyp, two cm in diameter… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
DNA content of liver cell nuclei of N-2-fluorenylacetamide-induced altered foci and neoplasms in rats and human hyperplastic foci.
The DNA content of cell nuclei of liver lesions induced in inbred male ACI rats by administration of 0.02% N-2-fluorenylacetamide… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Monocyte infiltration and glomerular hypercellularity in human acute and persistent glomerulonephritis. Light and electron microscopic, immunofluorescence, and histochemical investigation on twenty…
Glomerular monocyte infiltration was searched for using staining for nonspecific esterase and/or electron microscopy in 28… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Effect of prostaglandin E on immune complex nephritis in NZB/W mice.
Pharmacologic quantities of prostaglandin alter the immune complex nephritis of NZB/W mice. To study the mechanism of this change… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Chromosome 3 duplication q21 leads to qter deletion p25 leads to pter syndrome in children of carriers of a pericentric inversion inv(3) (p25q21).
Close phenotypic similarity between two cases carrying a rec(3) dup q,inv(3) (p25q21), 12 additional infants from the same inv (3… 
Review
1954
Review
1954
Survey of clinical significance of serum mucoprotein level.
RECENT reports have stimulated interest in factors responsible for the maintenance of the serum mucoprotein (M) level in health… 
Highly Cited
1949
Highly Cited
1949
Spontaneous basophilic tumors of the pituitary glands in gonadectomized mice.
Mice of the F1 generation reciprocal crosses of JAX strains C57 Black, dba, ce, A and C3H were gonadectomized at 1 to 3 days of…