Dr. David Elam Drum MD
Nuclear Medicine Specialist | Nuclear Imaging & Therapy
Va Medical Center 1400 Vfw Parkway West Roxbury MA, 02132About
Dr. David Drum practices Nuclear Medicine in West Roxbury, MA. Dr. Drum 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma MD
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- An unexpected pericardial effusion.
- Serum binding of methyltetrahydrofolic acid.
- Evaluating care of alcoholic patients in a general hospital.
- Evaluating care of alcoholic patients in a general hospital.
- Gastric uptake of gallium-67 in AIDS.
- Hepatic scintigraphic changes associated with gestational trophoblastic disease.
- A sex difference in the serum vitamin B-12 levels of hospitalized alcoholics.
- A sex difference in the serum vitamin B-12 levels of hospitalized alcoholics.
- Optical properties of catalytically active cobalt and cadmium liver alcohol dehydrogenases.
- Hepatic scintigraphy in clinical decision making.
- Health implications of nuclear energy.
- Health implications of nuclear energy.
- Scintigraphy of the liver and spleen.
- Hepatic toxicity of nitrosourea analogues.
- Structural and functional zinc in horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase.
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- James Stevan Nagel M.D.1400 Vfw Pkwy West Roxbury MA 02132
- Dr. Yelena Kamenker-orlov M.D., PH.D.WEST ROXBURY VA MEDICAL CENTER, AMBULATORY CARE WEST ROXBURY MA 02132
- Rachel Anne Powsner M.D.1400 Vfw Pkwy West Roxbury MA 02132