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Metastatic Brachial Plexopathy in a Case of Recurrent Breast Carcinoma Demonstrated on 18F-FDG PET/CT

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 110029, India

    Madhavi Tripathi, ChandraSekhar Bal & Arun Malhotra

  2. Nuclear Medicine and PET, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Madhavi Tripathi

  3. Department of Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Chandan J. Das

  4. Department of Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 110029, India

    Anurag Srivastava

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Tripathi, M., Das, C.J., Srivastava, A. et al. Metastatic Brachial Plexopathy in a Case of Recurrent Breast Carcinoma Demonstrated on 18F-FDG PET/CT. Nucl Med Mol Imaging 48, 85–86 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-013-0237-1

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