2004

Dasan JB, Hadi M, Karthikeyan G, Kumar R, Malhotra A. Reproducibility of global and regional left ventricular contractility parameters obtained by gating resting and redistribution Thallium-201 myocardial SPECT studies. Nucl Med Commun. 2004 May;25(5):487-493.

Kumar R, Dhurairaj T, Potenta S, Takalkar A, Bozkurt MF, Alavi A Positron Emission Tomography (PET): Clinical Applications in Oncology. IJNM, 19(1): 1-11, 2004.

Lal H, Gamanagatti S, Garg R, Thulkar S, Kumar R. Imaging of arthritis. Ortho Today 2004;6: 31-41.

Barai S, Kumar R, Malhotra R, Malhotra A. Nuclear Medicine in gynaecological diseases. Obst & Gynae Today. 2004; 9:255-257.

Bhargava P, Kumar R, Zhuang H, Alavi A. Catheter Related Focal FDG activity on Whole Body PET Imaging. Clin Nucl Med 2004;29:238-242.

Takalkar A, Jian QY, Kumar R, Alavi A, Zhuang H. Diffuse bone marrow accumulation of FDG in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia mimics hematopoitic cytokine-mediated FDG uptake on PET imaging. Clin Nucl Med November 2004.

Bhargava P, Zhuang H, Kumar R, Alavi A. Iatrogenic Artefacts on Whole body F18-FDG PET Imaging. Clin Nucl Med 2004;29:429-439.

Thomas EJ, Hadi M, Patel CD, Kumar R, Bal CS, Malhotra A. Direct radionuclide cystography by suprapubic puncture: Comparision with conventional voiding cystourethrography. Nucl Med Commun. 2004; 25(4): 383-385.

Sood A, Senthilnathan MS, Deswal S, Pradhan PK, Das BK, Kumar R. Spontaneous Rupture of Choledochal Cyst and Role of Hepatobiliary Scintigraphy. Clin Nucl Med. 2004 Jun;29(6):392-393.

Sood A, Gambhir S, Sewatkar AB, Deswal S, Sarswat VA, Kumar R. Esophageal Motor Disorder diagnosed by Esophageal Transit Scintigraphy. Clin Nucl Med. 2004 Nov;29(11):768-769.

Trikha V, Gupta V, Rastogi S, Kumar R. Tuberculosis of Calcaneus: Assessing Treatment Response by Tc-99m MDP Scintigraphy. Clin Nucl Med. 2004;29(8):506.

Yan X, Kumar R. Sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with breast cancer. World J Nucl Med. 2004;3: 148-154.

Bural G, Mavi A, Kumar R, El-Haddad G, Srinivas S, Alavi A. FDG PET imaging as a potential modality for detecting atherosclerotic lesions in the major arteries. J Nucl Cardiol. 2004 Jul-Aug;11(4):S23-4.

Trikha V, Gupta V, Kumar R. Increased Uptake in Tc-99m MDP Scan of Sacral Chordoma:: An Unusual Presentation. Clin Nucl Med. 2004 Sep;29(9):562-563.

Bural G, Mavi A, Kumar R, Alavi A. FDG uptake in intercostals muscles an indicator of severe respiratory disease. Clin Nucl Med. 2004 Dec;29(12):807-8.

Bhargava P, Zhuang H, Kumar R, Yu J Q, Alavi A. Ring-Shaped FDG Uptake in the Right Lower Lung: Is It Always a Tumor? Clin Nucl Med. 2004;29(5):324-325.

Yu JQ, Kumar R, Xiu Y, Alavi A, Zhuang H. Diffuse FDG uptake in the lungs in patients with aspiration pneumonia on positron emission tomographic imaging. Clin Nucl Med. 2004 Sep;29(9):567-8.

Batlle JC, Zuhang H, Potenta S, Kumar R, Alavi A. Hodgkin’s disease in the sinonasal region detected by FDG PET. Clin Nucl Med 2004; 29:449.

Kumar R, Potenta S, Alavi A. Sentinel lymph node biopsy in multifocal and multicentric breast cancer. J Am Coll Surg. 2004;198(4):674-6.

Kumar R, Maillard I, Alavi A. Utility of fluorodeoxyglucose-PET imaging in the management of patients with Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. Radiol Clin North Am. 2004 Nov;42(6):1083-100.

Kumar R, Zhuang H, Alavi A. PET in the management of urologic malignancies. Radiol Clin North Am. 2004 Nov;42(6):1141-53.

Kumar R, Alavi A. Fluorodeoxyglucose-PET in the management of breast cancer. Radiol Clin North Am. 2004 Nov;42(6):1113-22.

Kumar R, Alavi A. PET imaging in gynecologic malignancies. Radiol Clin North Am. 2004 Nov;42(6):1155-67.

Kumar R, Xiu Y, Potenta S, Mavi A, Zhuang H, Yu JQ, Alavi A. FDG-PET in Evaluation of Treatment Response in Patients with Gastrointestinal Tract Lymphomas. J Nucl Med. 2004;45(11):1796-1803.

Kumar R, Bhargava P, Zhuang H, Yu JQ, Schuster S, Alavi A.Spontaneous regression of follicular, mantle cell and diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas detected by FDG-PET imaging. Clin Nucl Med. 2004 Nov;29(11):685-8.

Kumar R, Xiu Y, Yu JQ, Takalkar A, El-Haddad G, Potenta S, Kung J, Zhuang H, Alavi A. F18-FDG-PET in evaluation of adrenal lesions in patients with lung cancer. J Nucl Med. 2004: 45;2058-2062.

Kumar R, Mitchell S, Alavi A. F18-FDG Uptake and Breast Density in women with Normal Breast Tissue. J Nucl Med. 2004;45(8):1423-4.

Zhuang H, Kumar R, Mandel S, Alavi A. Investigation of thyroid, head, and neck cancers with PET. Radiol Clin North Am. 2004 Nov;42(6):1101-11.

Iqbal M, Aggarwal S, Kumar R, Garg P, Bandhu S, Kumar A, Chumber S, Guleria S, Prashad R. Tc99m-Mebrofenin hepatobiliary scanning in prediction of common bile duct stones in patients of gall stone disease. Nucl Med Commun 2004;25 (3):285-289.

Tripathi M, Chandershekar N, Kumar R, Thomas EJ, Bal CS, Agarwal S, Malhotra A. Hepatobiliary scintigraphy; An effective tool in the management of bile leak following laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Clin Imaging. 2004;28(1):40-3.

Kumar R, Jana S. Positron Emission Tomography: An Advanced Nuclear Medicine Imaging Technique from Research to Clinical practice. Methods in Enzymology. 2004;385: 3-19.

C.S. Bal, Ajay Kumar, Prem Chandra, S.N. Dwivedi, and S. Mukhopadhyaya. Is Chest X-ray or High-Resolution Computed Tomography Scan of the Chest Sufficient Investigation to Detect Pulmonary Metastasis in Pediatric Differentiated Thyroid Cancer? Thyroid 2004; 14: 221-229.

Narayana C, Tripathi M, Kumar A, Gowda NK, Phom H, Chandra P, Bandopadhyaya G, Bal CS. Technetium-99m-L,L-ethylenedicysteine renal scan as a single-modality investigation for the evaluation of renal morphology and function: a comparative study with technetium-99m-dimercaptosuccinic acid. Nucl Med Commun. 2004 Jul; 25(7):743-747.

Phom H, Kumar A, Tripathi M, Chandrashekar N, Choudhry VP, Malhotra A, Bal CS. Comparative evaluation of Tc-99m-heat-denatured RBC and Tc-99m-anti-D IgG opsonized RBC spleen planar and SPECT scintigraphy in the detection of accessory spleen in postsplenectomy patients with chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. Clin Nucl Med. 2004 Jul;29(7):403-9.

Bal CS, Kumar A, Pant GS. Radioiodine dose for remnant ablation in differentiated thyroid carcinoma: a randomized clinical trial in 509 patients. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2004 Apr;89(4):1666-73.

Bajpai M, Kumar A, Tripathi M, Bal CS. Dorsal lumbotomy incision in paediatric pyeloplasty. ANZ J Surg. 2004 Jun; 74(6):491-4.

S Bhatnagar, B Sellappan, R Saxena, C S Bal, P Arya, M Kannan, S Saini, U Natchu, M K Bhan. Is Helicobacter Pylori infection associated with iron deficiency anemia in children-a case control study. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2004; 39: S249.

Barai S, Bandopadhayaya GP, Malhotra A, Agarwal S, Kumar R, Dhanapathi H. Does I-131-MIBG underestimate skeletal disease burden in neuroblastoma?J Postgrad Med. 2004 Oct-Dec;50(4):257-61.

Barai S, Bandopadhayaya GP, Julka PK, Kale SS, Malhotra A, Haloi AK, Seith A, Gopendro Sing N.Evaluation of 99mTc-L-methionine brain SPECT for detection of recurrent brain tumor: a pilot study with radiological and pathological correlation. Acta Radiol. 2004 Oct;45(6):649-57.

Barai S, Bandopadhayaya GP, Chumber S, Gupta DK, Patel CD, Dhanpati H. Role of skeletal scintigraphy in soft tissue sarcoma: Improving the diagnostic yield. J Postgrad Med. 2004 Jul-Sep;50(3):180-4.

Barai S, Bandopadhayaya GP, Julka PK, Naik KK, Haloi AK, Kumar R, Seith A, Malhotra A. Role ofTc-glucoheptonic acid brain single photon emission computed tomography in differentiation of recurrent brain tumour and post-radiationgliosis. Australas Radiol. 2004 Sep;48(3):296-301.

Barai S, Bandopadhayaya GP, Raj P, Julka PK, Kumar R, Malhotra A, Dhanpathi H, Nainiwal S, Haloi AK.Role of skeletal scintigraphy in advanced retinoblastomas. Acta Radiol. 2004 May;45(3):313-6.

Barai S, Bandopadhayaya GP, Julka PK, Dhanapathi H, Haloi AK, Seith A. Cerebellar medulloblastoma presenting with skeletal metastasis. J Postgrad Med. 2004 Apr-Jun;50(2):110-2.

Barai S, Bandopadhayaya GP, Julka PK, Malhotra A, Bal CS, Dhanpathi H. Imaging using Tc99m-tetrofosmin for the detection of the recurrence of brain tumour: a comparative study with Tc99m-glucoheptonate. J Postgrad Med. 2004 Apr-Jun;50(2):89-93.

Barai S, Bandopadhayaya GP, Kumar R, Malhotra A, Halanaik D. Multiple ectopic thyroid masses in a hypothyroid child. Pediatr Radiol. 2004 Jul;34(7):584. Epub 2004 Mar 06.