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*Chronic inflammation. | *Chronic inflammation. | ||
*Acute inflammation - can result in an elevated PSA and may have prompted the biopsy you're looking at. | *Acute inflammation - can result in an elevated PSA and may have prompted the biopsy you're looking at. | ||
*Nodular hyperplasia of the prostate; AKA ''benign prostatic hypertrophy'' (BPH). | |||
**Not diagnosed on needle biopsies. | |||
**''BPH'' is technically incorrect -- the process is a hyperplasia. | |||
***Hyperplasia = proliferation of cells, hypertrophy = enlargement of cells. | |||
****How to remember? A. '''P'''rostate... hyper'''P'''lasia. | |||
==Cancer== | ==Cancer== | ||