Extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia and the use of FDG-PET/CT.

Clin Nucl Med

Department of Nuclear Medicine/Radiology, and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.

Published: June 2009

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