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Incidental focal thyroid uptake on 18F-Choline PET-CT: need to rule out thyroid cancer

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine and Thyroid Unit, François Baclesse Cancer Centre, Caen, France

    Renaud Ciappuccini & Stéphane Bardet

  2. INSERM U1086 “ANTICIPE”, Normandie University, Caen, France

    Renaud Ciappuccini

  3. Department of Pathology, François Baclesse Cancer Centre, Caen, France

    Corinne Jeanne

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Ciappuccini, R., Jeanne, C. & Bardet, S. Incidental focal thyroid uptake on 18F-Choline PET-CT: need to rule out thyroid cancer. Endocrine 62, 729–730 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12020-018-1705-2

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