Incidental thyroid "PETomas": Clinical significance and novel description of the self-resolving variant of focal FDG-PET thyroid uptake

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 83-88

  Nishimori, Hidefumi ^a   Tabah, Roger ^a   Hickeson, Marc ^b   How, Jacques ^c  

^a Division of Surgical Oncology   (Canada)

^b Divisions of Diagnostic Radiology   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

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EID: 79953245003     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: 14882310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cjs.023209     Document Type: Article

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