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Katherine Rachel Birchard MD
Radiologist | Diagnostic Radiology
Unc Hospitals 2000 Old Clinic Buil Chapel Hill NC, 27599About
Dr. Katherine Birchard is a radiologist practicing in Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Birchard specializes in diagnosing and treating injuries and diseases using medical imaging techniques such as X-Rays, magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography exams. These techniques offer accurate visibility to the inside of the patients body and help to detect otherwise hidden illnesses so that they can be treated quickly and efficiently.
Education and Training
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine 2001
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Fecal incontinence in the postreproductive woman.
- MRI of acute abdominal and pelvic pain in pregnant patients.
- Suspected pancreatic cancer: evaluation by dynamic gadolinium-enhanced 3D gradient-echo MRI.
- Magnetic resonance evaluation of pregnant patients with acute abdominal pain.
- Hepatocellular carcinoma missed on gadolinium enhanced MR imaging, discovered in liver explants: retrospective evaluation.
- Acute aortic syndrome and acute traumatic aortic injury.
- Transthoracic needle biopsy.
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UNC Hospitals Hillsborough Campus
430 Waterstone Drive First Floor -Hillsborough, NC 27278Get Direction
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