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Gallbladder malakoplakia masquerading as malignant primary on 18F-FDG PET/CT

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, E. Borges road, Parel, Mumbai, 400012, India

    Akshay Sharad Bedmutha, Archi Agrawal, Ritesh R. Suthar, Nilendu Purandare, Sneha Shah, Ameya Puranik & V. Rangarajan

  2. Department of Pathology, Department of Pathology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India

    Tushar Agrawal & Rajiv Kumar

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Bedmutha, A.S., Agrawal, A., Suthar, R.R. et al. Gallbladder malakoplakia masquerading as malignant primary on 18F-FDG PET/CT. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 48, 323–324 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-020-04829-4

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