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Primary Rectal Adenocarcinoma Metastasizing to Bilateral Breasts – a Rare Case Demonstrated by 18 F-FDG PET/CT

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Ramya Soundararajan, Saurabh Arora, Chandan Jyoti Das, Maitrayee Roy, Rakesh Kumar, and Chandrasekhar Bal declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Ramya Soundararajan, Saurabh Arora, Rakesh Kumar & Chandrasekhar Bal

  2. Department of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Chandan Jyoti Das

  3. Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Maitrayee Roy

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Soundararajan, R., Arora, S., Das, C.J. et al. Primary Rectal Adenocarcinoma Metastasizing to Bilateral Breasts – a Rare Case Demonstrated by 18 F-FDG PET/CT. Nucl Med Mol Imaging 50, 175–177 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-015-0350-4

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