Q: What is the difference between metaplasia, dysplasia and anaplasia?

Is dysplasia a reversible process and as such a cellular adaptation?

In the modern books on pathology, dysplasia is no longer mentioned in the chapters on adaptations but is instead mentioned in the chapters on neoplasia – is this an indication of dysplasia being a neoplastic condition? Anaplasia refers to completely undifferentiated cells and is somehow an outdated term or what?

Added By: Mette

On: June 22nd 2011