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| Year : 2017 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 84 |
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Typographical errors in article entitled, "unusual false positive radioiodine uptake on 131 I whole body scintigraphy in three unrelated organs with different pathologies in patients of differentiated thyroid carcinoma: A case series."
Dom-Gene Tu1, Yu-Ling Lin2
1 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ditmanson Medical Foundation, Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chia-Yi City 600; Department of Food Science and Technology, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan City 717; Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan City 711, Taiwan
2 Department of Gastroenterology, Ditmanson Medical Foundation, Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chia-Yi City 600, Taiwan
| Date of Web Publication | 12-Jan-2017 |
Correspondence Address:
Yu-Ling Lin
Department of Gastroenterology, Ditmanson Medical Foundation, Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, 539 Zhong-Xiao Road, Chia-Yi City 600
Taiwan
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DOI: 10.4103/1450-1147.198281 PMID: 28217029 
How to cite this article:
Tu DG, Lin YL. Typographical errors in article entitled, "unusual false positive radioiodine uptake on 131 I whole body scintigraphy in three unrelated organs with different pathologies in patients of differentiated thyroid carcinoma: A case series.". World J Nucl Med 2017;16:84 |
How to cite this URL:
Tu DG, Lin YL. Typographical errors in article entitled, "unusual false positive radioiodine uptake on 131 I whole body scintigraphy in three unrelated organs with different pathologies in patients of differentiated thyroid carcinoma: A case series.". World J Nucl Med [serial online] 2017 [cited 2021 Jan 26];16:84. Available from: http://www.wjnm.org/text.asp?2017/16/1/84/198281 |
Dear Editor,
We appreciate the case series studied by Ranade et al. [1] that appeared in the May-Aug 2016 issue of the World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, entitled, "Unusual False Positive Radioiodine Uptake on 131 I Whole Body Scintigraphy in Three Unrelated Organs with Different Pathologies in Patients of Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma: A Case Series," in which they described three interesting cases.
However, we would like to question whether there may be typographical errors in the article. On page 137, in line 10 of the right column, the amount of 131 I is given as 54 μCi. On page 138, in line 18 of the left column, the amount of 131 I is given as 49 μCi. Moreover, on page 138, in line 14 of the right column, the amount of 131 I is given as 49 μCi. We would like to question whether the unit amount should not be μCi but rather mCi since there is a 1000-fold difference between 1 μCi and 1 mCi (1000 μCi = 1 mCi).
To avoid misunderstanding from the study and article, corrections of these typographical errors would be helpful.
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Conflicts of interest
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| 1. | Ranade R, Pawar S, Mahajan A, Basu S. Unusual false positive radioiodine uptake on (131) I whole body scintigraphy in three unrelated organs with different pathologies in patients of differentiated thyroid carcinoma: A case series. World J Nucl Med 2016;15:137-41.  [ PUBMED]  |
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