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Image-guided ablations in patients with thyroid tumors

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  1. Valerio Ferrara and Ciriaco Buonomenna contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Università degli Studi di Milano, Scuola di Specializzazione in Radiodiagnostica, Milan, Italy

    Valerio Ferrara & Ciriaco Buonomenna

  2. Dipartimento di Radiologia Interventistica, IRCCS Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy

    Giovanni Mauri

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Ferrara, V., Buonomenna, C. & Mauri, G. Image-guided ablations in patients with thyroid tumors. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 143, 2637–2639 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00432-017-2503-6

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