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Urologic Neoplasms: Prostate, Bladder, and Renal Cell Carcinoma

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This chapter illustrates clinical case examples demonstrating clinical utility and diagnostic performance of FDG PET-CT scans in prostate, bladder, and renal cell carcinoma.

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Desai, B., Jadvar, H. (2016). Urologic Neoplasms: Prostate, Bladder, and Renal Cell Carcinoma. In: Conti, P., Kaushik, A. (eds) PET-CT. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5811-2_8

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