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Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 316272, 23 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/316272
Review Article

Multiparametric MRI for Recurrent Prostate Cancer Post Radical Prostatectomy and Postradiation Therapy

Flavio Barchetti and Valeria Panebianco

Department of Radiological Sciences, Oncology and Pathology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00186 Rome, Italy

Received 17 January 2014; Accepted 25 April 2014; Published 25 May 2014

Academic Editor: Tarık Esen

Copyright © 2014 Flavio Barchetti and Valeria Panebianco. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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