David M Mccarthy MD
Nuclear Medicine Specialist | Nuclear Cardiology
3400 Spruce Street Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. David Mccarthy practices Nuclear Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Mccarthy 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
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 1971
Provider Details
Treatments
- Anxiety
- Heart Disease
- Congenital
- Epilepsy
- Coronary Artery Disease (cad)
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
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