Amjad Ali, MD

Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.

1. The use of radioisotope combined with isosulfan Blue dye is not superior to radioisotope alone for the identification of sentinel lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer
   Bines S, Kopkash K, Ali A, Fogg L, Wool N
   Surgery
   2008 Oct
   144(4):606-9; discussion 609-10
   

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• I work in a section which provides diagnostic information, and the information that we provide helps the physician solve the patient’s problem — at least to some extent.

  We use radioactive material, which is injected into the blood of the patient, and with the special cameras that we have in our department, we take pictures of the distribution of this radioactivity in their body.

  The pictures that we used to do were very fuzzy. Now with the help of computers, with the help of the sophisticated gamma camera that we use, the pictures are sharper, the details are much more clear. And we are able to tell the difference between various types of changes with confidence and make a better interpretation of the finding that what we see on the scan.