The 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in breast cancer

  • Jasna Mihailović Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia; University of Novi Sad, Technical Faculty “Mihajlo Pupin”, Zrenjanin, Serbia.
  • Milan Ubavić Health Care Institution for Laboratory Diagnostics “Medlab”, Novi Sad, Serbia; European University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Keywords: breast neoplasms, tomography, emission-computed, x-ray computed, radiopharmaceuticals, sensitivity and specificity,

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2017/07/07
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