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PET/CT in Colorectal Cancer

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Yong Du M.B.B.S., M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.C.P.

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Du, Y. (2017). PET/CT in Colorectal Cancer. In: Du, Y. (eds) PET/CT in Colorectal Cancer. Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54837-1_6

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