Dr. Clara Chi Chen M.D.
Nuclear Medicine Specialist
10 Center Dr Bldg 10, 1c459, Clin Bethesda MD, 20892About
Dr. Clara Chen practices Nuclear Medicine in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Chen 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.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Diagnostic localization of pheochromocytoma: the coming of age of positron emission tomography.
- Hyperparathyroidism in hereditary syndromes: special expressions and special managements.
- Role of preoperative localization and intraoperative localization maneuvers including intraoperative PTH assay determination for patients with persistent or recurrent hyperparathyroidism.
- Increased 99mTc-sestamibi accumulation in normal liver and drug-resistant tumors after the administration of the glycoprotein inhibitor, XR9576.
- Superiority of 6-[18F]-fluorodopamine positron emission tomography versus [131I]-metaiodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy in the localization of metastatic pheochromocytoma.
- Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the presence of cardiac metastases.
- F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomographic imaging in a patient with persistent hiccups.
- Fracture incidence in polyostotic fibrous dysplasia and the McCune-Albright syndrome.
- A phase I/II study of infusional vinblastine with the P-glycoprotein antagonist valspodar (PSC 833) in renal cell carcinoma.
- An instrument to measure skeletal burden and predict functional outcome in fibrous dysplasia of bone.
- Discordant localization of 2-[18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose in 6-[18F]-fluorodopamine- and [(123)I]-metaiodobenzylguanidine-negative metastatic pheochromocytoma sites.
- Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) for monitoring lymphadenopathy in the autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS).
- A phase I study on adoptive immunotherapy using gene-modified T cells for ovarian cancer.
- Onset, progression, and plateau of skeletal lesions in fibrous dysplasia and the relationship to functional outcome.
- A phase II clinical trial of sorafenib in androgen-independent prostate cancer.
Dr. Clara Chi Chen M.D.'s Practice location
Practice At 10 Center Dr Bldg 10, 1c459, Clinical Center, Nih
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