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Implantation and Monitoring by PET/CT of an Orthotopic Model of Human Pleural Mesothelioma in Athymic Mice
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Metastatic pleural mesothelioma presenting in a breast fine needle aspiration specimen
P W Shield1,2, D L Ribu2
1Faculty of Health, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
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