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A 52-year-old male without any known primary malignancy underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT after a left adrenal incidentaloma was detected by abdominal MRI.
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Özülker, T., Özülker, F. (2015). Surrenal Tumors. In: Atlas of PET-CT Imaging in Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18994-9_13
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