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01-03-2014 | Letter to the Editor

Combined ^99mTc-methoxyisobutylisonitrile scintigraphy and fine-needle aspiration cytology offers an accurate and potentially cost-effective investigative strategy for the assessment of solitary or dominant thyroid nodules: reply to comments by Riazi et al.

Authors: Anita Wale, Sabina Dizdarevic

Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Issue 3/2014

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Dear Sir, …

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Title: Combined 99mTc-methoxyisobutylisonitrile scintigraphy and fine-needle aspiration cytology offers an accurate and potentially cost-effective investigative strategy for the assessment of solitary or dominant thyroid nodules: reply to comments by Riazi et al.
Authors: Anita Wale
Sabina Dizdarevic
Publication date: 01-03-2014
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Issue 3/2014
Print ISSN: 1619-7070
Electronic ISSN: 1619-7089
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-013-2642-1

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