Dr. Michael Steven Kipper M.D.
Nuclear Medicine Specialist | Nuclear Imaging & Therapy
5395 Ruffin Rd Suite 202 San Diego CA, 92123About
Dr. Michael Kipper practices Nuclear Medicine in San Diego, CA. Dr. Kipper uses procedures and treatments that apply molecular imaging and molecular therapy. Nuclear Medicine Physicians are trained and certified to provide such procedures as skeletal imaging, glucose metabolic imaging, brain perfusion, blood pool imaging, and thyroid imaging, among many others.
Education and Training
University of California 1971
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Nuclear MedicineAmerican Board of Nuclear MedicineABNM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- False-positive Tl-201 SPECT studies in patients with left bundle branch block. Frequency and clinical significance.
- Steps in moving molecular imaging to the clinic.
- Nuclear medicine-important advances in clinical medicine: indium 111-labeled leukocyte scanning.
- Nuclear medicine: leukocyte imaging for detecting acute inflammatory processes.
- Positive In-111 white cell scan in a patient with multiple metastases.
- Influence of perfusion and ventilation scans on therapeutic decision making and outcome in cases of possible embolism.
- Gallium-67-citrate uptake in a case of acne vulgaris.
- Indium-111 white blood cell imaging.
- The qualitative I-131 Hippuran renogram. A potential problem.
- Abnormal 99mTc-PIPIDA scans mistaken for common duct obstruction.
- The feasibility of performing 133Xe ventilation imaging following the perfusion study.
- The potential role of In-111 white blood cell scans in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
- I-131 MIBG detection of metastatic hepatic carcinoid.
Treatments
- Lung Cancer
- Lymphoma
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