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These are benign lesions and encompass diverse entities that range from ectopic breast tissue to duct ectasia, mastitis, fat necrosis, Rosai–Dorfman disease, IgG4-related mastitis, diabetic mastopathy, amyloidosis, biopsy site changes, and reaction to foreign material including implants.
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Tan, P.H., Sahin, A.A. (2017). Developmental, Reactive, and Inflammatory Conditions. In: Atlas of Differential Diagnosis in Breast Pathology. Atlas of Anatomic Pathology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6697-4_2
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