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Imaging in Medullary Thyroid Cancer

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    H.-J. Biersack (Professor Dr. med.) (Professor Dr. med.)

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    F. Grünwald (Professor Dr. med.) (Professor Dr. med.)

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Behr, T., Becker, W. (2005). Imaging in Medullary Thyroid Cancer. In: Biersack, HJ., Grünwald, F. (eds) Thyroid Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27845-1_18

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