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Letter to the Editor

Thyroid fluorodeoxyglucose-whole body positron emission tomography incidentaloma concurrently diagnosed with a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma localized in the neck

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Pages 425-427 | Received 03 Oct 2006, Accepted 09 Oct 2006, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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