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Lung alert
Routine PET for early lung cancer
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  1. Alaisdair G Stewart
  1. Correspondence to Dr Alaisdair G Stewart, Consultant Chest Physician, Medway Maritime Hospital, UK; alaisdair.stewart{at}medway.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.2009.132902

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