Dr. Peter Choyke is a medical officer in radiology, Chief of Research Activity, and Chief of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the Diagnostic
Radiology Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Choyke earned his bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania
State University and his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in
Philadelphia. He did an internship at Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury, Connecticut,
and a residency in diagnostic radiology at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Before coming to the NIH Clinical Center in 1987 as senior
staff radiologist, Dr. Choyke was assistant, then associate, professor of
radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He has been chief
of clinical MRI since 1992.
He has received the following awards and honors:
- Patents NMR Glomerular Filtration Test, US Patent 5,100,646
- Awards: First Prize Research Paper, Society of Uroradiology
Annual Meeting 1992, Scottsdale, AZ
- Third Prize Research Paper (Co-author), Society of Uroradiology
Annual Meeting, 1993, Naples, FL
- Honorable Mention, Scientific Exhibit, RSNA 1986
- Citation, Scientific Exhibit, RSNA 1988
- Resident Teaching Award, Georgetown University, 1987
- Editor's Award for Radiology 1988, With special distinction
1989, 1990, Most Prolific Reviewer 1988-93, 1995
- Editor's Certificate of Recognition, Radiographics, 1993,
1994, 1996
A selected bibliography appears below.
Publications
Choyke PL, Siegel MJ, Craft AW, Green DM, DeBaun MR. Screening
for Wilmís Tumor in Children with Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome and
Hemihypertrophy. (Accepted: Medical and Pediatric Oncology)
Choyke PL, Siegel MJ, Oz O, Sotelo-Avila C, DeBaun MR.
Nonmalignant Renal Disease in Pediatric Patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann
Syndrome. (Accepted AJR)
Biesecker LG, Peters KF, Darling TN, Choyke PL, Hill SC,
Schimke N, Cunningham M, Meltzer P, Cohen MM Jr. Clinical Differentiation
Between Proteus Syndrome and Hemihyperplasia: Description of a Distinct
Form of Hemihyperplasia. (Accepted, American Journal of Medical Genetics)
Choyke PL, Siegel MJ, Oz O, Sotelo-Avila C, DeBaun MR.
Nonmalignant Renal Disease in Pediatric Patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann
Syndrome. Am J Roentgenol 1998; 171:733-737.
Choyke PL. Cady J, DePollar SL, Austin HA. Determination
of Serum Creatinine Prior to Iodinated Contrast Media: Is it Necessary in
All Patients? Techniques in Urology 1998; 4:65-69.
Lubensky IA, Pack S, Ault D, Vortmeyer AO, Libutti SK,
Choyke PL, Walther MM, Linehan WM, Zhuang Z. Multiple Neuroendocrine tumors
of the Pancreas in von Hippel-Lindau Disease Patients: Histopathologic and
Molecular Genetic Analysis. Am J Pathol 1998; 153: 223-231.
Kshirsagar AV, Choyke PL, Linehan WM, Walther MM. Pseudotumors
After Renal Parenchymal Sparing Surgery. J Urology 1998: 159:1148-51.
Schmidt L, Junker K, Weirich G, Glenn G, Choyke PL, Lubensky
I, Zhuang Z, Jeffers M, Woude GV, Neumann H, Walther M, Linehan WM, Zbar
B. Two north american families with hereditary papillary renal carcinoma
and identical noval mutations in the MET proto-oncogene. Cancer Research
1998; 58: 1719-1722.
Weirich G, Glenn G, Junker K, Merino M, Storkel S, Lubensky
I, Choyke P, Pack S, Amin M, Walther MM, Linehan WM, Zbar B. Familial Renal
Oncocytoma: Clinicopathological Study of Five Families. J Urol 1998; 160:335-340.
DeBaun MR, Siegel MJ, Choyke PL. Nephromegaly in infancy
and early childhood: A risk factor for Wilms tumor in Beckwith-Wiedemann
Syndrome. J Pediatr 1998; 132:401-404.
Summers RM, Brune AM, Choyke PL,ÝChow CK, Patronas
NP, Miller FW, White PH, Malley PD, Rider LG. Exercise-induced Changes on
STIR MRI of Muscle in Patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy.ÝRadiology
1998; 209:191-196.
Choyke PL, Glenn GM, Wagner JR, Lubensky I, Thakore K,
Zbar B, Linehan WM, Walther MM. Epididymal Cystadenomas in Von Hippel-Lindau
Disease. Urology 1997; 49:926-931.
Davidson AJ, Hartman DS, Choyke PL, Wagner BJ. Radiologic
Assessment of Renal Masses: Implications for Patient Care. Radiology 1997;
202:297-305.
Choyke PL, Walther MM, Glenn GM, Wagner JR, Venzon DJ,
Lubensky IA, Zbar B, Linehan WM. Imaging Features of Hereditary Papillary
Renal Cancers. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1997;21:737-741.
Manski TJ, Heffner DK, Glenn GM, Patronas NJ, Pikus AT,
Katz D, Lebovics R, Sledjeski K, Choyke PL, Zbar B, Linehan WM, Oldfield
EH. Endolymphatic Sac Tumors. JAMA 1997; 277:1461-1466.
Walther MM, Patel B, Choyke PL, Lubensky IA, Vocke CD,
Harris C, Venzon D, Burtis WJ, Linehan WM. Hypercalcemia in Patients with
Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Effect of Nephrectomy and Metabolic Evaluation.
J Urol 1997; 158:733-739.
Choyke PL. Walther MM, Wagner JR, Rayford W, Lyne JC, Linehan
WM. Renal Cancer: Preoperative Evaluation with Dual-Phase Three Dimensional
MR Angiography. Radiology 1997; 767-771.
Walther MM, Delaney TF, Smith PD, Friauf WS, Thomas GF,
Shawker TH, Vargas MP, Choyke PL, Linehan WM, Abraham EH, Okunieff PG, Glatstein
E. Phase I Trial of Photodynamic Therapy in the Treatment of Recurrent Superficial
Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder. Urology 1997; 50:199-206.
Schmidt L, Duh FM, Chen F, Kishida T, Glenn G, Choyke P,
Scherer SW, Zhuang Z, Lubensky I, Dean M, Allikmets R, Chidambaram A, Bergerheim
UR, Feltis JT, Casadevall C, Zamarron A, Bernues M, Richard S, Lips CJ,
Walther MM, Tsui LC, Geil L, Orcutt ML, Stackhouse T, Zbar B. Germline and
somatic mutations in the tyrosine kinase domain of the MET proto-oncogene
in papillary renal carcinomas. Nat Genet 1997 May;16(1):68-73.
Jamis-Dow CA, Choyke PL, Jennings SB, Linehan WM, Thakore
KN, Walther MM. Small (< 3cm) Renal Masses: Detection with CT versus
US and Pathologic Correlation. Radiology 1996;198:785-788.
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