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Negative MIBI thyroid scans exclude differentiated and medullary thyroid cancer in 100% of patients with hypofunctioning thyroid nodules

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  1. Thyroid Clinic, General Hospital of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

    Luis-Mauricio Hurtado-López

  2. Molecular Nuclear Medicine, Hospital Infantil de México “Federico Gómez”, Dr. Márquez, 162, Colonia Doctores, Mexico City, 06720, Mexico

    Carlos Martínez-Duncker

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Hurtado-López, LM., Martínez-Duncker, C. Negative MIBI thyroid scans exclude differentiated and medullary thyroid cancer in 100% of patients with hypofunctioning thyroid nodules. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 34, 1701–1703 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-007-0490-6

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