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Nuklearmedizin 2013; 52(04): 113-114
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1622117
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131I sodium-iodide versus 56Fe surgical steel

Which is better for lateral lymph node metastases in differentiated thyroid cancer patients?
F. Verburg
1   Department of Nuclear Medicine, RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Germany
,
T. Weber
2   Department of Surgery, University Hospital Ulm, Germany
,
M. Luster
3   Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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received: 14 June 2013

accepted in revised form: 19 June 2013

Publication Date:
12 January 2018 (online)

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