Dr. William E. Benson MD
Ophthalmologist
4060 Butler Pike., Ste. 200 Plymouth Meeting PA, 19462About
Dr. William Benson is an ophthalmologist practicing in Plymouth Meeting, PA. Dr. Benson specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Benson can practice medicine as well as surgery. Opthalmologists can perform surgeries because they have their medical degrees along with at least eight years of additional training. Dr. Benson can diagnose and treat diseases, perform eye operations and prescribe eye glasses and contacts. Ophthalmologists can also specialize even further in a specific area of eye care.
Education and Training
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1969
Board Certification
OphthalmologyAmerican Board of OphthalmologyABO
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cataract surgery and diabetic retinopathy.
- Ocular manifestations of diabetes.
- Unusual immunogammopathy maculopathy.
- Diabetes and retinopathy.
- Safety of indocyanine green angiography during pregnancy: a survey of the retina, macula, and vitreous societies.
- The COMS: why was it not stopped sooner?
- Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in the fellow phakic eyes of patients with pseudophakic rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.
- Helping patients experience the emotions of vision loss.
- AMALGAM IN ENDODONTICS.
- Determination of the incidence and clinical characteristics of subsequent retinal tears following treatment of the acute posterior vitreous detachment-related initial retinal tears.
- The risk of fellow eyes in patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.
- Retinal complications of cataract surgery.
- Iris neovascularization after central retinal artery obstruction despite previous panretinal photocoagulation for diabetic retinopathy.
- Treatment of foveal pigment epithelial detachments with contiguous extrafoveal choroidal neovascular membranes.
- Basic fibroblast growth factor levels in the vitreous of patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
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