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Nuclear Medicine

Nuclear Medicine

We offer a comprehensive range of diagnostic imaging and non-imaging procedures for a wide range of conditions. Some examples of the tests provided include:

  • Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy
  • Thyroid and parathyroid investigations
  • Lung ventilation and perfusion imaging
  • Assessment of cardiac ventricular function
  • Renal scanning and glomerular filtration rate assessment
  • Labelled blood cell imaging for infection / inflammation
  • Liver and spleen imaging
  • GI investigations including gastric emptying and bile acid malabsorption (SeHCAT) assessment
  • Bone scanning
  • Brain scanning for some dementias and Parkinson’s disease
  • Sentinel lymph node imaging (breast cancer and melanoma).
  • We also we provide imaging support to investigator-led and commercial clinical trials.

 

In-patient and out-patient procedures are provided for patients from the South Yorkshire region and beyond. These include 131-I therapy for benign thyroid disease and for the treatment of thyroid cancer; Lu-177 Dotatate and 131-I mlBG treatments for the treatment of neuroendocrine tumours and Ra-223 treatments for treatment of metastatic bone disease for patients with prostate cancer.

Please see this link for information relating to referring patients into our Nuclear Medicine service.

Monday –Friday 9-5, Royal Hallamshire, Northern General Hospital, Weston Park Hospital.

Please contact the department to speak to one of the staff via reception: 0114 271 2779

For more information about this service call 0114 271 2779

This service is available at the following Hospitals:

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