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  1. Alfonso Marchianò
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  1. Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Guy Marchal

  2. Department of Radiology, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Thomas J. Vogl

  3. Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA

    Jay P. Heiken

  4. Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA

    Geoffrey D. Rubin

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Marchianò, A. (2005). MDCT of Primary Liver Malignancy. In: Marchal, G., Vogl, T.J., Heiken, J.P., Rubin, G.D. (eds) Multidetector-Row Computed Tomography. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/88-470-0363-6_6

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