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Liver SUV versus stage in Hodgkin’s lymphoma: the total amount of uptake may play a role in the inverse relationship

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Laffon, E., de Clermont, H., Lamare, F. et al. Liver SUV versus stage in Hodgkin’s lymphoma: the total amount of uptake may play a role in the inverse relationship. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 42, 164–165 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-014-2925-1

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