Victor J. Pizzitola, M.D.

  1. Radiologist
  1. Patel BK, Carnahan MB, Northfelt D, Anderson K, Mazza GL, Pizzitola VJ, Giurescu ME, Lorans R, Eversman WG, Sharpe RE Jr, Harper LK, Apsey H, Cronin P, Kling J, Ernst B, Palmieri J, Fraker J, Mina L, Batalini F, Pockaj B. Prospective Study of Supplemental Screening With Contrast-Enhanced Mammography in Women With Elevated Risk of Breast Cancer: Results of the Prevalence Round. J Clin Oncol. 2024 Jul 26; JCO2202819 Epub 2024 July 26
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  2. Robinson KA, Staack SO, Patel BK, Lorans R, Sharpe RE Jr, Kling JM, Maimone S, Pizzitola VJ. The Dense Breast Clinic: Initial Experience of a Patient-Centered Breast Imaging Clinic. J Breast Imaging. 2022 Dec 11; 4 (6):582-589
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  3. Viggiano T, Scott R, Sharpe R, Kasper C, Mazza G, Pizzitola V, Giurescu M, Lorans R, Eversman W, Patel BK. Contrast Enhanced Mammography in Routine Clinical Practice: Frequency and Malignancy Rates of Enhancing Otherwise Occult Findings. Clin Breast Cancer. 2022 Oct; 22 (7):e736-e744 Epub 2022 July 23
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  4. Carnahan M, Pockaj B, Pizzitola V, Giurescu M, Lorans R, Eversman W, Sharpe R, Cronin P, Patel BK. Contrast-Enhanced Mammography for Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer in Women With Breast Augmentation: Preliminary Findings. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2021 Mar 17 [Epub ahead of print]
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  5. Patel AG, Pizzitola VJ, Johnson CD, Zhang N, Patel MD. Radiologists Make More Errors Interpreting Off-Hours Body CT Studies during Overnight Assignments as Compared with Daytime Assignments. Radiology. 2020 Nov; 297 (2):374-379 Epub 2020 Aug 18
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  6. Sheaffer WW, Gray RJ, Wasif N, Stucky CC, Cronin PA, Kosiorek HE, Basu A, Pizzitola VJ, Patel B, Giurescu ME, Lorans R, McCullough AE, Ocal IT, Pockaj BA. Predictive factors of upstaging DCIS to invasive carcinoma in BCT vs mastectomy. Am J Surg. 2019 Jun; 217 (6):1025-1029 Epub 2019 Feb 23
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  7. Patel BK, Covington M, Pizzitola VJ, Lorans R, Giurescu M, Eversman W, Lewin J. Initial Experience of Tomosynthesis-Guided Vacuum-Assisted Biopsies of Tomosynthesis-Detected (2D Mammography and Ultrasound Occult) Architectural Distortions. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2018 Jun; 210 (6):1395-1400 Epub 2018 Mar 23
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  8. Covington MF, Pizzitola VJ, Lorans R, Pockaj BA, Northfelt DW, Appleton CM, Patel BK. The Future of Contrast-Enhanced Mammography. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2018 Feb; 210 (2):292-300 Epub 2017 Oct 24
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  9. Patel BK, Lee CS, Kosiorek HE, Newell MS, Pizzitola VJ, D'Orsi CJ. Variability of Postsurgical Imaging Surveillance of Breast Cancer Patients: A Nationwide Survey Study. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2018 Jan; 210 (1):222-227 Epub 2017 Oct 24
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  10. Rhee D, Pockaj B, Wasif N, Stucky CC, Pizzitola V, Giurescu M, Patel B, McCarthy J, Gray R. Operative outcomes of conventional specimen radiography versus in-operating room specimen radiography in radioactive seed-localized segmental mastectomies. Am J Surg. 2018 Jan; 215 (1):151-154 Epub 2017 July 19
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  11. Patel BK, Naylor ME, Kosiorek HE, Lopez-Alvarez YM, Miller AM, Pizzitola VJ, Pockaj BA. Clinical utility of contrast-enhanced spectral mammography as an adjunct for tomosynthesis-detected architectural distortion. Clin Imaging. 2017 Nov - Dec; 46:44-52 Epub 2017 July 12
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  12. Lewis TC, Patel BK, Pizzitola VJ. Navigating contrast-enhanced digital mammography Applied Radiology. 2017 Mar; 46: (3)21-8.
  13. McDonough MA, Yang G, Palmieri JM, DeYoung D, Zwart CM, Pizzitola V. Tracking to Excellence: Automating Breast Imaging Wait-time Monitoring. Radiol Technol. 2017 Mar; 88: (4)431-434.
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  14. Lewis TC, Pizzitola VJ, Giurescu ME, Eversman WG, Lorans R, Robinson KA, Patel BK. Contrast-enhanced Digital Mammography: A Single-Institution Experience of the First 208 Cases. Breast J. 2017 Jan; 23(1):67-76. Epub 2016 Oct 02.
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  15. Ali-Mucheru M, Pockaj B, Patel B, Pizzitola V, Wasif N, Stucky CC, Gray R. Contrast-Enhanced Digital Mammography in the Surgical Management of Breast Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol. 2016 Dec; 23 (Suppl 5):649-655 Epub 2016 Sept 15
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  16. Al-Hilli Z, Glazebrook KN, McLaughlin SA, Chan DM, Robinson KT, Giesbrandt JG, Slomka EL, Pizzitola VJ, Gray RJ, Jakub JW. Utilization of Multiple I-125 Radioactive Seeds in the Same Breast is Safe and Feasible: A Multi-institutional Experience. Ann Surg Oncol. 2015 Oct; 22: (10)3350-5.
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  17. Ashfaq A, Senior D, Pockaj BA, Wasif N, Pizzitola VJ, Giurescu ME, Gray RJ. Validation study of a modern treatment algorithm for nipple discharge. Am J Surg. 2014 Aug; 208 (2):222-7 Epub 2014 Apr 03
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  18. Ma I, Dueck A, Gray R, Wasif N, Giurescu M, Lorans R, Pizzitola V, Pockaj B. Clinical and self breast examination remain important in the era of modern screening. Ann Surg Oncol. 2012 May; 19 (5):1484-90 Epub 2011 Dec 08
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  19. McGhan LJ, Wasif N, Gray RJ, Giurescu ME, Pizzitola VJ, Lorans R, Ocal IT, Stucky CC, Pockaj BA. Use of preoperative magnetic resonance imaging for invasive lobular cancer: good, better, but maybe not the best? Ann Surg Oncol. 2010 Oct; 17 Suppl 3:255-62. Epub 2010 Sep 19.
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  20. Mitchell MT, Pizzitola VJ, Knuttinen MG, Robinson T, Gasparaitis AE. Atypical complications of gastric bypass surgery. Eur J Radiol. 2005 Mar; 53(3):366-73.
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  21. Gabriel H, Pizzitola V, McComb EN, Wiley E, Miller FH. Adrenal lesions with heterogeneous suppression on chemical shift imaging: clinical implications. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2004 Mar; 19(3):308-16.
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