The diagnostic value of integrated PET/CT in solitary pulmonary nodules in an area with the world‘s highest recorded incidence of tuberculosis (a pilot study)

F. von Groote-Bidlingmaier, J. Warwick, M. Bernasconi, C. F. N. Koegelenberg, A. Mowlana, E. M. Irusen, P. Schubert, A. Ellman, C. T. Bolliger (Cape Town, South Africa)

Source: Annual Congress 2010 - State of the art imaging
Session: State of the art imaging
Session type: E-Communication Session
Number: 5280
Disease area: Respiratory infections, Thoracic oncology

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