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The use of technetium-99m sestamibi to indicate breast cancer invasiveness

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Bourgeois, P. The use of technetium-99m sestamibi to indicate breast cancer invasiveness. Eur J Nucl Med 22, 581–582 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00817286

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