A tribute to a nuclear surgeon

Dr Irving M. Ariel, a surgeon, medical educator, and specialist in radiation therapy for cancer, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82. The family said the cause was heart failure. Dr Ariel was associated with Beth Israel Hospital North in Manhattan. More than 240 of his papers were published in medical journals. Dr Ariel was a clinical professor of surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He used new techniques with isotopes in treating thyroid disease and the diagnosis of pulmonary embolisms