Dr. Fuad S Ashkar M.D.
Nuclear Medicine Specialist | In Vivo & In Vitro Nuclear Medicine
11760 Sw 40th St Suite 535 Miami FL, 33175About
Dr. Fuad Ashkar practices Nuclear Medicine in Miami, FL. Dr. Ashkar 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
Govt. Dental College, Bangalore University, India 1962
Board Certification
Nuclear MedicineAmerican Board of Nuclear MedicineABNM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Infrared light scanning of the breast.
- Effect of corticosteroids on hypercalcaemia of malignant disease.
- Normalized serum thyroxine (T 4 N). The test for thyroid function in pregnancy.
- Normalized serum thyroxine and effective thyroxine ratio.
- Serum thyroxine as an index of thyroid function.
- Inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone in reticulum cell sarcoma.
- Increased incidence of hyperthyroidism in the Cuban population of greater Miami.
- Use of normalized serum thyroxine (T 4 N). A new approach to thyroid hormone measurement.
- The dynamic thyroid study. A rapid evaluation of thyroid function and anatomy using 99mTc as pertechnetate.
- Parathyroid scanning with 75 Se-selenomethionine and glucagon stimulation.
- 75 Se selenomethionine as a scanning agent for the differential diagnosis of the cold thyroid nodule.
- Hospital ketosis in the alcoholic diabetic: a syndrome due to isopropyl alcohol intoxication.
- Radioimmunoassay of free thyroxine with prebound anti-T4 microcapsules.
- Radioimmunoassay of free thyroxine with prebound anti-T4 microcapsules.
- Hyperthyroidism--paradoxical incidence in tropical climate.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- High Cholesterol
- Obesity
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Hypothyroidism
- Thyroiditis
- Vascular Disease
- Goiter
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