Peter J. Littrup, MD, FACR
Doctor | Diagnostic Radiology
4100 John R Rd Detroit MI, 48201About
Dr. Peter Littrup is a radiologist practicing in Detroit, MI. Dr. Littrup specializes in diagnosing and treating injuries and diseases using medical imaging techniques such as X-Rays, magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography exams. These techniques offer accurate visibility to the inside of the patients body and help to detect otherwise hidden illnesses so that they can be treated quickly and efficiently.
Education and Training
Univ of Mi Med Sch, Ann Arbor Mi 1985
University of Michigan Medical School 1985
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Vesicourethral anastomosis biopsy after radical prostatectomy: predictive value of prostate-specific antigen and pathologic stage.
- Prostate cancer: the role of transrectal ultrasound and its impact on cancer detection and management.
- Imaging and prostate cancer chemoprevention: Current diagnosis and future directions.
- Minimally invasive alternatives to traditional operative hepatic cryoablation: works in progress.
- The role of digital rectal examination, transrectal ultrasound, and prostate specific antigen for the detection of confined and clinically relevant prostate cancer.
- Prostate cancer screening: current trends and future implications.
- Thermal protection during percutaneous thermal ablation of renal cell carcinoma.
- American Burkitt's lymphoma of the head and neck: evaluation with serial FDG-PET.
- Cryotherapy for breast fibroadenomas.
- Thoracic masses treated with percutaneous cryotherapy: initial experience with more than 200 procedures.
- Image-guided percutaneous cryotherapy for the management of gynecologic cancer metastases.
- Lethal isotherms of cryoablation in a phantom study: effects of heat load, probe size, and number.
- Cryotherapy for breast cancer: a feasibility study without excision.
- Optimizing the protocol for pulmonary cryoablation: a comparison of a dual- and triple-freeze protocol.
- Breast ultrasound tomography versus MRI for clinical display of anatomy and tumor rendering: preliminary results.
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