Assistant Professor, Departments of Radiology and Neurosurgery Emory University Hospital 1364 Clifton Road, NE Suite A121 Atlanta GA 30322 Appt. Phone: 404-712-4991

• Areas of Clinical Interest
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Dr. Frank C. Tong was raised in the midwest and completed a B.S. degree in electrical engineering with an emphasis in biomedical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His special interests as an undergraduate included development of artificial neural networks for computer speech recognition and digital signal processing. He received his M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine and completed a diagnostic radiology residency at Emory University in Atlanta. After residency, he completed one year of diagnostic neuroradiology fellowship at Emory and subsequently finished an additional two years of interventional neuroradiology fellowship training. He joined the faculty as an assistant professor beginning in 2000.


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Areas of Clinical Interest: aneurysm angioplasty / angiogram CT Scan interventional radiology lumbar puncture stents vertebroplasty

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Publications

Intra-arterial thrombin injection of an ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm complicated by transient ischemic attack and rescued with systemic abciximab J Vasc. Surg. Pages: 34(5): 939-42

Use of abciximab for mediation of thromboembolic complications of endovascular therapy AJNR Am J Neuroradiol Pages: 22(9): 1764-7

Transoral approach to cervical vertebroplasty for multiple myeloma AJR Am J Roentgenol Pages: 175(5): 1322-4

Abciximab rescue in acute carotid stent thrombosis... AJNR Am J Neuroradiol Pages: 21(9):1750-2

Use of three-dimensional Guglielmi detachable coils in the treatment of wide-necked cerebral aneurysms AJNR Am J Neuroradiol Pages: 21(7): 1312-4