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A 62-year-old female who is status post total hysterectomy and bilateral salphyngoopherectomy had the diagnosis of malignant mixed Müllerian tumor and is now being evaluated for restaging with 18F-FDG PET/CT.

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Özülker, T., Özülker, F. (2015). Gynecologic Tumors. In: Atlas of PET-CT Imaging in Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18994-9_14

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