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Molecular imaging phenotyping of germline fumarate hydratase (FH) pathogenic variant-positive metastatic pheochromocytoma

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Acknowledgment

We acknowledge Professor Gimenez Roqueplo for genetic analysis, and Drs Bolliet and Lopez for clinical patient management.

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  1. Médecine Nucléaire et Imagerie Moléculaire, ICANS, Strasbourg University, 17, rue Albert Calmette, 67093, Strasbourg, France

    Alessio Imperiale, Miriam Pepponi & Nathan Poterszman

  2. Molecular Imaging–DRHIM, IPHC, UMR-7178, CNRS/Unistra, Strasbourg, France

    Alessio Imperiale

  3. Nuclear Medicine, Careggi University Hospital, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Miriam Pepponi

  4. Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Abhishek Jha & Karel Pacak

  5. Internal Medicine, Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders, University Hospitals of Strasbourg, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France

    Cedric Collen & Bernard Goichot

  6. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University Hospitals of Strasbourg, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France

    Daniel Brumaru

  7. Pathology, Strasbourg University Hospitals, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

    Marie-Pierre Chenard

  8. La Timone University Hospital, CERIMED, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

    David Taïeb

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Imperiale, A., Pepponi, M., Poterszman, N. et al. Molecular imaging phenotyping of germline fumarate hydratase (FH) pathogenic variant-positive metastatic pheochromocytoma. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 50, 3155–3156 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-023-06261-w

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