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Tc-99m PMT and Tc-99m GSA can be taken up by hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but there has been no report concerning HCC showing accumulation of both of Tc-99m PMT and Tc-99m GSA. In this paper we describe a case of two simultaneously developed HCCs, one of which took up both tracers but the other took up neither of them.
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Tanabe, Y., Hashimoto, M., Ohuchi, Y. et al. Discordant uptake of Tc-99m PMT and Tc-99m GSA by two hepatocellular carcinoma lesions. Ann Nucl Med 14, 485–488 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02988296
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