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  1. Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Unit of Pathology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Eliano Cascardi & Eugenio Maiorano

  2. Unit of Pathology, Candiolo Cancer Institute FPO-IRCCS, Candiolo, Italy

    Eliano Cascardi & Caterina Marchiò

  3. Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

    Caterina Marchiò

  4. Institut Curie, Paris, France

    Caterina Marchiò

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  1. Unit of Pathology, Candiolo Cancer Institute FPO-IRCCS, Candiolo, Italy

    Anna Sapino

  2. Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

    Anna Sapino

  3. 2nd Department of Pathology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

    Janina Kulka

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Cascardi, E., Marchiò, C., Maiorano, E. (2020). Microglandular Adenosis. In: Sapino, A., Kulka, J. (eds) Breast Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62539-3_4723

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