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    Sven-Åke Starck

  2. Department of Clinical Physiology, County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden

    Lene Rosendahl

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Starck, SÅ., Rosendahl, L. Comments on Van den Wyngaert et al., The EANM practice guidelines for bone scintigraphy. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 43, 2263–2264 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-016-3492-4

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