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F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Imaging for Diagnosing Ovarian Small Cell Carcinoma of the Hypercalcemic Type

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This study was supported by a Soongsan fellowship in Wonkwang University in 2012.

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Soon-Ah Park, Hun Soo Kim, and Jorge Daniel Oldan declare no conflict of interest.

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The study was approved by an institutional review board (WKUH 201409-HRE-063) and has been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. The institutional review board waived the need to obtain informed consent. The manuscript has not been published before or is not under consideration for publication anywhere else and has been approved by all co-authors.

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Park, SA., Kim, H.S. & Oldan, J.D. F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Imaging for Diagnosing Ovarian Small Cell Carcinoma of the Hypercalcemic Type. Nucl Med Mol Imaging 50, 90–92 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-015-0340-6

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