Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 33, Issue 4 , Pages 331-333 , October 2003

Gamut: unilateral orbital uptake on Ga-67 scintigraphy

  • Jabour Khoury

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Dr. J. Khoury, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Western Galilee Hospital, PO Box 21, Nahariya 22,100 Israel
    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya, Israel
    • ,
  • Suheil Nassrala

      Affiliations

    • Department of Oncology, Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya, Israel
    • ,
  • Norman Loberant

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya, Israel
    • ,
  • Jacqueline Jerushalmi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya, Israel
    • Department of Oncology, Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya, Israel
    • Department of Radiology, Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya, Israel

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doi: 10.1016/S0001-2998(03)00036-9

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 33, Issue 4 , Pages 331-333 , October 2003

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