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Editorial
. 2024 Jul;51(9):2528-2531.
doi: 10.1007/s00259-024-06768-w.

Patient communication of nuclear imaging results: do nuclear medicine practitioners have a role to play?

Sandra Gonzalez  1 , Frédéric Comte  2 , Jean-Marc Israël  3 , Fabrice Rezungles  4 , Pierre Le Coz  5 , David Taïeb  6
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Editorial

Patient communication of nuclear imaging results: do nuclear medicine practitioners have a role to play?

Sandra Gonzalez et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2024 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: Communication; Ethics; Oncology; PET.

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