Chronic cystic mastitis is a different (older) name for fibrocystic disease.

Other names for this condition include chronic cystic mastitis, fibrocystic mastopathy and mammary dysplasia.

In 1906, Bloodgood agreed with the German pathologist Curt Schimmelbusch that the chronic cystic mastitis was a precancerous condition and should be treated, but by 1921 he had found that patients with this condition did not develop malignancies when untreated.