Dr. Dwight Mark Achong M.D.
Nuclear Medicine Specialist | Nuclear Imaging & Therapy
13000 Bruce B Downs Blvd Nuclear Medicine (11 Tampa FL, 33612About
Dr. Dwight Achong practices Nuclear Medicine in Tampa, FL. Dr. Achong 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
Howard Univ Coll of Med, Washington Dc 1984
Howard University College of Medicine 1984
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- Normal gallbladder ejection fraction after morphine augmentation.
- Early gallbladder visualization during Tc-99m RBC scintigraphy.
- Incidence and significance of enterogastric reflux during morphine-augmented cholescintigraphy.
- False-negative morphine-augmented cholescintigraphy: a case of subacute gallbladder perforation.
- Demonstration of increased bone metabolism in melorheostosis by multiphase bone scanning.
- Increased uptake in a vertebral bone island seen only on SPECT.
- Skeletal angiomatosis limited to the hand: radiographic and scintigraphic correlation.
- The cystic duct sign during morphine-augmented cholescintigraphy.
- Quantitation of differential renal function with Tc-99m MDP.
- Bladder outlet obstruction secondary to obstructed Foley catheter discovered on PET/CT.
- Change in I-123 uptake by a hyperfunctioning thyroid nodule in a patient with multinodular goiter and subclinical hyperthyroidism.
- Hepatic superscan on PET/CT due to Richter's transformation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
- Pericholecystic rim sign on PET/CT secondary to locally invasive gallbladder carcinoma.
- Serendipitous discovery of non-sestamibi-avid squamous cell lung cancer invading the heart during myocardial perfusion imaging.
- Facial Paralysis Secondary to Extensive Perineural Spread of Adenocarcinoma of
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