Efficacy of high-energy collimator for sentinel node lymphoscintigraphy of early breast cancer patients
By: Kamran Aryana, Mohaddeseh Gholizadeh, Mehdi Momennezhad, Maryam Naji, Mohsen Aliakbarian, Mohammad Forghani and Ramin Sadeghi
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Published on: Feb 6, 2012
Published by: Association of Radiology and Oncology
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