follicular hyperplasia

follicular hyperplasia
a form of chronic lymphadenitis, characterized by expansion of the germinal centers, which contain large numbers of rapidly proliferating lymphocytes in various stages of differentiation and histiocytes containing phagocytized debris; morphologically, it can resemble follicular lymphoma.

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