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Multifocal Head and Neck Paraganglioma Evaluated with Different PET Tracers: Comparison Between Fluorine-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose and Gallium-68-Somatostatin Receptor PET/CT

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  1. Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

    Paola Castaldi & Vittoria Rufini

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT Centre, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, via Ospedale, 12, 6500, Bellinzona, Switzerland

    Giorgio Treglia

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Castaldi, P., Treglia, G. & Rufini, V. Multifocal Head and Neck Paraganglioma Evaluated with Different PET Tracers: Comparison Between Fluorine-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose and Gallium-68-Somatostatin Receptor PET/CT. Nucl Med Mol Imaging 47, 218–219 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-013-0204-x

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