Dr. Luvenia Wilcox Bender M.D.
Nuclear Medicine Specialist | Nuclear Cardiology
700 19th St S Va Medical Center Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. Luvenia Bender practices Nuclear Medicine in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Bender 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
East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine 1994
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Recurrent lymphoma detected on F-18 FDG coincidence imaging with negative findings on Ga-67 citrate scintigraphy.
- Eventration of the hemidiaphragm causing confusing hepatobiliary scintigraphic findings.
- Evaluation of rare choroid plexus metastasis from papillary thyroid carcinoma with multimodality imaging.
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