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Letter to the Editor
Clinical utility of hybrid (SPECT/CT) imaging in calciphylaxis
Utilidad clínica de las imágenes híbridas (SPECT/ CT) en la calcifilaxis
Kamal Kant Sahua,
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, Amos Lalb, Ajay Kumar Mishraa
a Department of Internal medicine, Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
b Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester
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