Dr. Lewis E Braverman M.D.
Nuclear Medicine Specialist
732 Harrison Ave 2nd Floor Boston MA, 02118Rating
3/5
About
Dr. Lewis Braverman practices Nuclear Medicine in Boston, MA. Dr. Braverman 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
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1955
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1955
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Nuclear MedicineAmerican Board of Nuclear MedicineABNM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Identification of Grb4/Nckbeta, a src homology 2 and 3 domain-containing adapter protein having similar binding and biological properties to Nck.
- Are thyroid function tests too frequently and inappropriately requested?
- Thyroid health status of ammonium perchlorate workers: a cross-sectional occupational health study.
- Recombinant interferon alpha (rIFN-alpha) does not potentiate the effect of iodine excess on the development of thyroid abnormalities in patients with HCV chronic active hepatitis.
- The use of perchlorate for the prevention of thyrotoxicosis in patients given iodine rich contrast agents.
- Effects of iodine repletion on thyroid morphology in iodine and/or selenium deficient rat term fetuses, pups and mothers.
- Induction of transcription factor interferon regulatory factor-1 by interferon-gamma (IFN gamma) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF alpha) in FRTL-5 cells.
- Escape from the acute Wolff-Chaikoff effect is associated with a decrease in thyroid sodium/iodide symporter messenger ribonucleic acid and protein.
- The oral administration of human thyroglobulin does not affect the incidence of lymphocytic thyroiditis in the biobreeding Worcester rat.
- Sidney C. Werner. 1909-1994.
- Monomorphic teratoma of the ovary: a rare cause of triiodothyronine toxicosis.
- A point mutation in the albumin gene in a Chinese patient with familial dysalbuminemic hyperthyroxinemia.
- Cytokine gene expression in autoimmune thyroiditis in BioBreeding/Worcester rats.
- Fas and Fas ligand gene expression in autoimmune thyroiditis in BB/W rats.
- Pyridoxine (B6)-induced inhibition of prolactin release in the female rat.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Thyroid Cancer
- Thyroiditis
- Goiter
- Graves' Disease
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