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Perineural spread of gastric cancer to the sciatic nerve incidentally detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8519, Japan

    Koichiro Kimura, Junichi Tsuchiya, Osamu Manabe, Kota Yokoyama & Ukihide Tateishi

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Kimura, K., Tsuchiya, J., Manabe, O. et al. Perineural spread of gastric cancer to the sciatic nerve incidentally detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 48, 940–941 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-020-04977-7

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