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PET-Florbetapir findings in primary cerebral amyloidoma

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  1. Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Instituto de Investigación I+12, Madrid, Spain

    Alberto Villarejo-Galende & Jesús Hernández-Gallego

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Madrid, Spain

    Pilar Sarandeses & Ana Cristina Hernández-Martínez

  3. Department of Neuro-Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Marta Penas-Prado

  4. Department of Pathology, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Instituto de Investigación I+12, Madrid, Spain

    Aurelio Hernández-Laín

  5. Department of Radiology, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Madrid, Spain

    Ana Ramos

  6. Department of Pathology, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    José Ramón Ricoy

  7. Instituto de Investigación I+12, Madrid, Spain

    Eva Carro

  8. Department of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Jesús Hernández-Gallego

  9. Servicio de Neurología, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, C/Andalucía, Km 5,4, 28041, Madrid, Spain

    Alberto Villarejo-Galende

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Villarejo-Galende, A., Sarandeses, P., Penas-Prado, M. et al. PET-Florbetapir findings in primary cerebral amyloidoma. J Neurol 262, 1052–1054 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-015-7643-5

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