Instructions for Your Test or Procedure

We are pleased to provide standard instructions regarding your test or procedure. Please contact your physician to discuss your individual needs and medical circumstances before you proceed.

For Mammography/Breast Intervention Procedure

• Preparing for your Mammogram
• Preparing for your Breast Intervention Procedure
• Patient Instructions After Ultrasound Guided Aspiration
• Patient Instructions After Breast Biopsy (Stereotactic or Ultrasound)

Diagnostic X-Ray Procedure

• Preparing for Your Colon Examination (Barium Enema or Air Contrast Barium Enema)
• Preparing for your Upper GI Series, Small Bowel Series or Esophograms (Barium Swallows)
• Preparing for your Intravenous Pyelogram (IVP)

Preparing for your Nuclear Medicine Procedure

• Bone Scan, Skeletal Imaging
• Three-phase Bone Scan
• Bone SPECT
• Gastric Emptying
• Liver Hemangioma (RBC Liver, Tagged Red Blood Cell Liver)
• Hepatobiliary Scan (Gall Bladder Ejection Fraction, HIDA scan, Gallbladder Study)
• Liver or Spleen Scan (Liver SPECT)
• MUGA (Gated wall motion, equilibrium Gated Cardiac)
• Parathyroid (sestimibi parathyroid scan, dual isotope parathyroid scan)
• Renal Scan (MAG3 Renal, Renal with Lasix)
• Vasotec Renal Scan (MAG3 Renal with Vasotec)
• Cardiac Stress Testing (Nuclear Stress Testing, Thallium Stress Test, Exercise Nuclear Stress, Adenosine Stress Test, Persantine Stress Test, Cardiolite Stress Test, Myoview Stress Test)
• Infectious Imaging
• Octreoscan
• Prostascint
• MIBG (Metaiodobenzylguanidine)
• PET Scan

Preparing for Your Surgery or Surgical Endoscopic Procedure

• Preparing for Your Surgical or Endoscopic Procedure
• The Day of Surgery or Endoscopy
• After Your Surgery or Endoscopy
• Additional Instructions for Colonoscopy, Gastroscopy (EGD) and other Endoscopic Procedures
  

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