Clinical Imaging
Volume 35, Issue 3 , Pages 228-231 , May 2011

Siliconomas mimicking cancer

  • Ahuva Grubstein

      Affiliations

    • Mammography Clinic, Department of Radiology, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tikva 49100, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Radiology Institute, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tikva 49100, Israel. Tel.: +972 3 937 6343; fax: +972 3 937 6335.
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  • Maya Cohen

      Affiliations

    • Mammography Clinic, Department of Radiology, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tikva 49100, Israel
    • ,
  • Adam Steinmetz

      Affiliations

    • Nuclear Medicine, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Kaplan 1 St., Petach Tikva 49100, Israel
    • ,
  • David Cohen

      Affiliations

    • Pathology Department, Herzelia Medical Center, Herzliya, Israel

Received 1 March 2010 ,Accepted 10 April 2010.

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PII: S0899-7071(10)00152-X

doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2010.07.006

Clinical Imaging
Volume 35, Issue 3 , Pages 228-231 , May 2011

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