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Based on an invited educational lecture at the 6th Asia and Oceania Congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology, and the 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto, October 1996.

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Abdel-Dayem, H.M. Nuclear Medicine applications in immunosuppressed patients, “AIDS”. Ann Nucl Med 10, 369–373 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03164796

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