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Combined 99mTc-methoxyisobutylisonitrile scintigraphy and fine-needle aspiration cytology offers an accurate and potentially cost-effective investigative strategy for the assessment of solitary or dominant thyroid nodules: reply to comments by Riazi et al.

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Wale, A., Dizdarevic, S. Combined 99mTc-methoxyisobutylisonitrile scintigraphy and fine-needle aspiration cytology offers an accurate and potentially cost-effective investigative strategy for the assessment of solitary or dominant thyroid nodules: reply to comments by Riazi et al.. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 41, 577–578 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-013-2642-1

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