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A 54-year-old female underwent tru-cut biopsy from mass lesions detected on USG at liver and histopathology revealed metastasis of adenocarcinoma. A 18F-FDG PET/CT scan was performed to evaluate the extent of the disease and determine the primary site of malignancy.
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Özülker, T., Özülker, F. (2015). Miscellaneous. In: Atlas of PET-CT Imaging in Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18994-9_18
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