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Response to comment by Aprile et al.: The EANM and SNMMI practice guideline for lymphoscintigraphy and sentinel node localization in breast cancer

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Giammarile, F., Alazraki, N., Aarsvold, J.N. et al. Response to comment by Aprile et al.: The EANM and SNMMI practice guideline for lymphoscintigraphy and sentinel node localization in breast cancer. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 41, 1259–1260 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-014-2750-6

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