Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Radiology

Melissa Spevak practices Radiology. She researched medicine at Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Melissa Spevak has written publications. She has 26 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Fractures of the hands and feet in child abuse: imaging and pathologic features.'

Publications

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• Significant responses to platinum-based chemotherapy in renal medullary carcinoma.
• Low dose, oral epsilon aminocaproic acid for renal papillary necrosis and massive hemorrhage in hemoglobin SC disease.
• Advanced pediatric joint imaging.
• Soft tissue swelling and acute skull fractures.
• The tailored low dose fluoroscopic voiding cystogram for familial reflux screening.
• Left-sided esophageal indentation in right aortic arch with aberrant left subclavian artery.
• MR imaging of benign fatty tumors in children: report of four cases and review of the literature.
• Variations in acromial ossification simulating infant abuse in victims of sudden infant death syndrome.
• Sonography of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis: frequency and cause of nonuniform echogenicity of the thickened pyloric muscle.
• Fractures of the hands and feet in child abuse: imaging and pathologic features.
• Localized pneumothorax with lobar collapse and diffuse obstructive airway disease.
• Tailored low-dose fluoroscopic voiding cystourethrography for the reevaluation of vesicoureteral reflux in girls.
• Adrenal hemorrhage in abused children: imaging and postmortem findings.
• Normal metaphyseal radiologic variants not to be confused with findings of infant abuse.
• Mediastinal pseudocyst caused by pharyngeal perforation during child abuse.
• Fractures of the rib head in abused infants.
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and rib fractures in infants. A postmortem radiologic-pathologic study.
• Distal humeral physeal injuries in child abuse: MR imaging and ultrasonography findings.
• Follow-up skeletal surveys in suspected child abuse.
• Extension of growth-plate cartilage into the metaphysis: a sign of healing fracture in abused infants.
• Imaging of neonatal child abuse with an emphasis on abusive head trauma.
• Ultrasonography of the adolescent female pelvis.
• Fractures in biliary atresia misinterpreted as child abuse.
• Detection of rib fractures in an abused infant using digital radiography: a laboratory study.
• Physiologic subperiosteal new bone formation: prevalence, distribution, and thickness in neonates and infants.

Schools

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• Thomas Jefferson University

• Rush Presby St Lukes Mc

• Northwestern University

• Chldns HospHarvard

Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatric Radiology
• Radiology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Boston Children's Hospital
• Rush University Medical Center
• Jefferson Medical College

Hospital

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• Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

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