Professor, Nuclear Medicine, Oakland University Wm Beaumont SOM

Radiology

Helena Balon practices Radiology. He over the years received 1 awards: "Super Doctor". Helena Balon is a published physician. He published 42 publications, including: 'An "upside-down" liver and gallbladder discovered on hepatobiliary scan.' He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.

Publications

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• Complementary Role of 18F-FDG PET and 123I-Ioflupane SPECT in the Diagnosis of Lewy Body Disease.
• 17-Year-Old Runner with Shin Pain.
• Scintigraphy of Patient with Hematochezia.
• The role of scintigraphy in confirmation of suspected brain death.
• Increased Sacral Uptake on a Bone Scan with SPECT/CT in a Patient with Achondroplasia: Normal or Abnormal?
• 13-year-old boy with a 3-day history of melena.
• Procedure guideline for somatostatin receptor scintigraphy with (111)In-pentetreotide.
• Computer-assisted imaging and display for biliary leak detection.
• Technetium-99m-sestamibi uptake by recurrent Hurthle cell carcinoma of the thyroid.
• A large substernal goiter as a cause of a pulmonary perfusion defect.
• Hepatodiaphragmatic colonic interposition (Chilaiditi's syndrome) demonstrated on Tc-99m DISIDA scan.
• Sequential technetium-99m sulfur colloid/indium-111 white blood cell imaging in macroglobulinemia of Waldenstrom.
• The role of morphine-augmented cholescintigraphy in the detection of acute cholecystitis.
• Hemophiliac arthropathy. Appearance on bone scintigraphy.
• Procedure guideline for hepatobiliary scintigraphy. Society of Nuclear Medicine.
• Deep venous thrombosis shown on In-111 labeled white blood cell imaging.
• C-14-urea breath test: a new product and a word of caution.
• An "upside-down" liver and gallbladder discovered on hepatobiliary scan.
• Procedure guideline for carbon-14-urea breath test. Society of Nuclear Medicine.
• Lateral displacement of liver and bowel on renal imaging.
• Lactating breast producing a mismatch on ventilation perfusion lung scan.
• Strontium-89 injected through implanted ports.
• Scintigraphic demonstration of restored Denver peritoneovenous shunt patency using urokinase.
• Morphine-augmented cholescintigraphy: its efficacy in detecting acute cholecystitis.
• The sensitivity of renal scintigraphy and sonography in detecting nonobstructive acute pyelonephritis.
• Patterns of abnormal FDG uptake by various histological types of non-small cell lung cancer at initial staging by PET.
• A clear cell variant of follicular carcinoma presenting as an autonomously functioning thyroid nodule.
• Granulomatous disease: is it a nuisance or an asset during PET/computed tomography evaluation of lung cancers?
• A statistical investigation of normal regional intra-subject heterogeneity of brain metabolism and perfusion by F-18 FDG and O-15 H2O PET imaging.
• Practice guideline for the performance of therapy with unsealed radiopharmaceutical sources.
• Prospective evaluation of aggressive medical therapy for atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis, with renal artery stenting reserved for previously injured heart, brain...
• Exceptionally low metabolic activity in aggressive peripheral T-cell lymphoma.
• Updated practice guideline for somatostatin receptor scintigraphy.
• The SNM practice guideline for somatostatin receptor scintigraphy 2.0.
• Pulse wave as an alternate signal for data synchronization during gated myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging.
• Procedure guideline for diuretic renography in children 3.0.
• Procedure guideline for myocardial perfusion imaging 3.3.
• Radioiodine therapy and pregnancy.
• Simvastatin-associated rhabdomyolysis demonstrated on bone scan.
• Procedure guideline for therapy of thyroid disease with (131)iodine.
• Effect of sympathetic blockade on cerebral perfusion demonstrated on Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT.

Schools

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• Charles University Faculty of Medicine in Prague

• Prague

• Wayne State University

• Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak

Doctors Specialties

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• Nuclear Medicine
• Radiology

Accepted Insurances

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• Choice Plus POS II
• Amerigroup (Wellpoint)
• Blue Card PPO
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
• Blue Care Network PCP Focus Network
• Group Employees PPO
• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Open Access Plus
• Cofinity PPO
• Commercial Insurance Company
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• Golden Rule
• Preferred PPO
• Choice Care PPO
• Medicaid
• Medicare MCR
• Molina
• PHP-Physicians Health Plan
• Priority Health
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• United Healthcare

Awards

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• Super Doctor

Education

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• William Beaumont Hospital

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1427026632
Last Name Of The Provider	BALON
First Name Of The Provider	HELENA
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