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Female breasts, he says, may also influence irregularities on thallium stress tests; simply put, the breast tissue gets in the way of the imaging technique. Doctors at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City have apparently circumvented that problem by using the PET (positron-emission tomography) scan, which they say is highly accurate in detecting even minor heart damage in women...
When the familiar swept-back hairdo has been built and lacquered, King often drives downtown for lunch at Duke Zeibert's, one of the capital's last old- fashioned, macho places to be seen. From his usual table, he can quickly scan, and be scanned by, every patron who enters. For lunch he invariably has slab after slab of Streit's salted matzos, lavishly spread with light margarine, plus a lettuce-and-tomato salad. Between bites he waves to and chats with all the pols, power brokers and wannabes...
...They're worried about whether his brain hasbeen damaged," said Stewart. "The cat scan turnedout all right and they think there might not be[any brain damage], but...the next three days arecritical. Things may change because of swellingand pressure on the brain...
...seemed O.K., although tests showed that she had lost some blood. A year ago, a doctor might simply have kept her under observation. But the hospital had recently hired Teleradiology Associates, a group of radiologists based in Durham, N.C. Just to be safe, the doctor sent them a CAT scan of the child...
...Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, by many standards of urban life these mostly low- rise population centers are already minicities. Most of the more than 200 suburban hybrids that he studied have more office space, shopping, entertainment, prestigious hotels, corporate headquarters -- even hospitals with high-tech CAT-scan machines -- than such conventional cities as Tampa, Tucson or Portland, Oregon...