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Dr Fleckenstein [1] has raised an important and valid point and essentially he is correct. It is true that the uptake of a mediastinal lymph node is not ever really zero, but rather it is "not reported." The maximal standard uptake value (maxSUV) of the mediastinal nodes that are not reported were labeled 0 by our statistical analysis and as defined in the article [2], because no other number was provided from them. Moreover, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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