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Striking lack of visualization of striatum on 18F-FDG brain PET in chorea-acanthocytosis

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  1. Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Diego Alfonso López-Mora, Valle Camacho, Alejandro Fernández & Ignasi Carrió

  2. Neuroradiology Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Esther Granell

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López-Mora, D.A., Camacho, V., Fernández, A. et al. Striking lack of visualization of striatum on 18F-FDG brain PET in chorea-acanthocytosis. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 45, 511–512 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-017-3905-z

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