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Comment on: FDG PET in the early diagnosis of large-vessel vasculitis

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by project MUNI/A/0723/2012, by MH CZ – DRO (MMCI, 00209805) and MH CZ – DRO (FNBr, 65269705).

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, PET Centre, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno, Czech Republic

    Zdeněk Řehák

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Brno and School of Medicine, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Szturz

  3. Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Brno, Jihlavská 20, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Szturz

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Řehák, Z., Szturz, P. Comment on: FDG PET in the early diagnosis of large-vessel vasculitis. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 41, 579–580 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-013-2662-x

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