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Nuklearmedizin 2011; 50(06): N63
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1621651
Case report
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Bone erosion due to aortic prosthesis by 18F-FDG-PET/CT

A. Sabet
1   Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Bonn
,
H. Strunk
2   Department of Radiology, University Hospital Bonn
,
H. Ahmadzadehfar
1   Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Bonn
,
A. Welz
3   Department of cardiac surgery, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
,
H.-J. Biersack
1   Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Bonn
,
S. Ezziddin
1   Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Bonn
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received: 19 May 2011

accepted in revised form: 22 June 2011

Publication Date:
09 January 2018 (online)

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