University Hospital Erlangen
Erlangen, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Torsten Kuwert
Department of Nuclear Medicine
Department of Nuclear Medicine at University Hospital Erlangen offers its radioisotope-fueled diagnostics and therapeutics for the management of thyroid diseases and tumors. The department directs a special focus on imaging diagnostics such as PET/CT and SPECT/CT. It also takes pride in its therapeutic approaches such as peptide radioreceptor therapy which is effective in the management of neuroendocrine tumors as well as the PSMA therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer.
Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Med. Torsten Kuwert, the department treats more than 310 inpatients every year. Most of the patients suffer from thyroid diseases as nuclear medicine approaches are highly effective in the treatment of benign and malignant thyroid diseases. The department also has an in-house Laboratory where thyroid hormone and antibody tests are performed.
The Department of Nuclear Medicine at University Hospital Erlangen is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
• Brain tumors
• Thyroid nodes
• Graves' disease
• Goiter
• Hashimoto's thyroiditis
• Thyroid enlargement
• Thyroiditis de Quervai
• Prostate cancer
• Bone metastases
• Neuroendocrine tumors
• Parathyroid diseases
• Parathyroid tumor
Education
- 1986 Master of Engineering, Rhine-Westphalian Technical Aachen University, Germany.
Professional Career
- 1986 - 1992 Assistant, Institute of Microelectronics/Children with Food Allergies, Juelich, Germany.
- 1992 - 1994 Associate Professor, Institute of Microelectronics/Children with Food Allergies, Juelich, Germany.
- 1994 - 1997 Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Muenster, Germany.
- 1997 Head and Professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Institute for Nuclear Medicine, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
- Head of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University Hospital Erlangen.
Department of Nuclear Medicine
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