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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · World J Nucl Med 2020; 19(02): 179
DOI: 10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_2_20
Letter to Editor

Clinical significance of thyroid incidentalomas detected on fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scan (PETomas): Its original description and now

Jacques How
Division of Endocrinology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
,
Roger Tabah
1   Department of Surgery, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
,
Elliot Mitmaker
1   Department of Surgery, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Received: 05 January 2020

Accepted: 23 January 2020

Article published online:
19 April 2022

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