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Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma on 68 Ga-PSMA PET/CT: opening new frontiers

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Damle, N.A., Bal, C., Singh, T.P. et al. Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma on 68 Ga-PSMA PET/CT: opening new frontiers. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 45, 667–668 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-017-3904-0

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