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Heidi Wassef

University of Southern California
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Commentary: aducanumab-related ARIA: paean or lament?

HR Wassef, PM Colletti - Clinical nuclear medicine, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Høilund-Carlsen and colleagues raise important issues related to amyloid PET, diagnosis of
Alzheimer disease, and recently approved antiamyloid treatment aducanumab. We discuss …

Primary spinal epidural non-Hodgkin lymphoma demonstrated by FDG PET/CT

…, D Valenzuela, A Negahban, H Wassef - Clinical nuclear …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
We report the F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography
appearance of a biopsy-proven primary epidural non-Hodgkin lymphoma involving the …

Re: Aducanumab-related ARIA: Paean or lament?

HR Wassef, PM Colletti - Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Høilund-Carlsen and colleagues raise concern regarding the reliability of amyloid PET to
exclude Alzheimer disease. We present additional studies of amyloid PET and discuss the …

F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging in left thigh intramuscular myxoma

L Ho, H Wassef, R Henderson, J Seto - Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 2009 - journals.lww.com
We report F-18 FDG PET-CT appearance of biopsy-proven intramuscular myxoma (IM) in a
69-year-old woman who presented with a left thigh mass. The tumor appears as a well-…

Renal metastasis from primary colon cancer on FDG PET-CT

L Ho, H Wassef, R Henderson, J Seto - Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 2009 - journals.lww.com
We report the PET-CT appearance of a metastasis from a primary colon cancer to the right
kidney in an 84-year-old woman with a history of moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma of …

18F-FDG PET/CT appearance of metastatic brachial plexopathy involving epidural space from breast carcinoma

…, T Luong, S Malkhassian, H Wassef - Clinical Nuclear …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Patient is a 74-year-old woman with a history of breast carcinoma and known metastatic
brachial plexopathy and pulmonary and mediastinal nodal involvement. She had bilateral …

Multi-level lumbar Baastrup disease on F-18 FDG PET-CT

L Ho, H Wassef, J Seto, R Henderson - Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 2009 - journals.lww.com
We report the positron emission tomography-computed tomography appearance of Baastrup
disease in the L2–L5 interspinous ligament region in a 79-year-old woman with a history of …

Nuclear medicine imaging in the dentomaxillofacial region

HR Wassef, PM Colletti - Dental Clinics, 2018 - dental.theclinics.com
Nuclear medicine displays physiologic processes at the molecular level. It is an imaging
subspecialty that uses small amounts of radioactive material to diagnose and treat disease. …

Cosmetic-related changes on 18F-FDG PET/CT

L Ho, J Seto, V Ngo, H Vuu, H Wassef - Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 2012 - journals.lww.com
We present 4 cases of cosmetic-related changes on 18 F-FDG PET/CT. These cases represent
post-treatment changes from facial juvederm injection, silicone injection in the chest wall …

PET/CT in head-neck malignancies: the implications for personalized clinical practice

HR Wassef, N Hanna, P Colletti - PET clinics, 2016 - pet.theclinics.com
Approximately 60,000 Americans develop head and neck cancer annually and it is the
cause of death for 12,000 Americans per year. It accounts for 3% of all cancers in the United …