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Letter to the Editor: 18F-NaF not cited in the EANM practice guideline for PET/CT imaging in medullary thyroid carcinoma

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Duarte, P.S. Letter to the Editor: 18F-NaF not cited in the EANM practice guideline for PET/CT imaging in medullary thyroid carcinoma. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 47, 525–526 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-019-04556-5

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