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Rectal metastasis from infiltrating lobular breast carcinoma: imaging with 18F-FDG PET

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  1. Borislav Laoutliev

    Present address: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Holbaek Hospital, Smedelundsgade 60, 4300, Holbaek, Denmark

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  1. Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Borislav Laoutliev & Lene Simonsen

  2. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Henrik Harling

  3. Department of Radiology, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Kirsten Neergaard

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Laoutliev, B., Harling, H., Neergaard, K. et al. Rectal metastasis from infiltrating lobular breast carcinoma: imaging with 18F-FDG PET. Eur Radiol 15, 186–188 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-004-2394-1

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