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01-07-2019 | Letter to the Editor

¹⁸F-FDG uptake of brown fat and cancer: casualty or causality?

Authors: Nicolò Gennaro, Giovanna Pepe, Lidija Antunovic

Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Issue 7/2019

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Title: 18F-FDG uptake of brown fat and cancer: casualty or causality?
Authors: Nicolò Gennaro
Giovanna Pepe
Lidija Antunovic
Publication date: 01-07-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Issue 7/2019
Print ISSN: 1619-7070
Electronic ISSN: 1619-7089
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-019-04303-w

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