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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
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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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Dear Editor,

We read with much interest the paper,[1] “Clinical significance of thyroid incidentalomas detected on fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scan (PETomas): An Indian experience” by Kumar et al. published in the July–September 2019 issue of your journal. In April 2011, our team published our findings on this topic, at which time we suggested that this thyroid entity should be called “PETomas.”[2] We are, therefore, extremely surprised that Kumar et al. did not cite our publication and acknowledge our role in initiating the use of the term “PETomas.”

We would also like to draw the attention of your readers to a paper published in 2008 by Katz and Shaha of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, wherein they proposed that this thyroid finding should be called “PET-associated incidental neoplasms (PAINS).”[3] Neither “PAINS” nor “PETomas” have thus far caught on in the literature so that we heartily welcome the usage of “PETomas” by Kumar et al. We believe that this term is simple and meaningful.


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  • References

  • 1 Kumar AA, Datta G, Singh H, Mukherjee PB, Vangal S. Clinical significance of thyroid incidentalomas detected on fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scan (PETomas): An Indian experience. World J Nucl Med 2019;18:273-82.
  • 2 Nishimori H, Tabah R, Hickeson M, How J. Incidental thyroid “PETomas”: Clinical significance and novel description of the self-resolving variant of focal FDG-PET thyroid uptake. Can J Surg 2011;54:83-8.
  • 3 Katz SC, Shaha A. PET-associated incidental neoplasms of the thyroid. J Am Coll Surg 2008;207:259-64.

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Dr. Elliot J. Mitmaker
Department of Surgery, Section of Endocrine Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital
Glen Site, 1001 Boul Decarie, Bureau D02.7324, Montréal, Québec H4A 3J1
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Publication History

Received: 05 January 2020

Accepted: 23 January 2020

Article published online:
19 April 2022

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  • References

  • 1 Kumar AA, Datta G, Singh H, Mukherjee PB, Vangal S. Clinical significance of thyroid incidentalomas detected on fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scan (PETomas): An Indian experience. World J Nucl Med 2019;18:273-82.
  • 2 Nishimori H, Tabah R, Hickeson M, How J. Incidental thyroid “PETomas”: Clinical significance and novel description of the self-resolving variant of focal FDG-PET thyroid uptake. Can J Surg 2011;54:83-8.
  • 3 Katz SC, Shaha A. PET-associated incidental neoplasms of the thyroid. J Am Coll Surg 2008;207:259-64.

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