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Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 686153, 4 pages
Persistent Inflammation in Pulmonary Granuloma 48 Years after Talcage Pleurodesis, Detected by FDG-PET/CT
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Meander Medical Center, Utrechtseweg 160, 3818 ES Amersfoort, The Netherlands
2Department of Pathology, Meander Medical Center, Utrechtseweg 160, 3818 ES Amersfoort, The Netherlands
3Department of Pulmonology, Meander Medical Center, Utrechtseweg 160, 3818 ES Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Received 29 April 2012; Accepted 15 October 2012
Academic Editor: S. A. Sahn
Copyright © 2012 J. C. Fanggiday et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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