Dr. Melvin Douglas Gossman M.D.
Ophthalmologist
2302 Hurstbourne Village Dr 700 Louisville KY, 40299About
Dr. Melvin Gossman is an ophthalmologist practicing in Louisville, KY. Dr. Gossman specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Gossman 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. Gossman 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
University At Buffalo SUNY School Of Med and Biomedical Sciences Buffalo Ny 1976
University at Buffalo State University of New York School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences 1976
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Expansion of the human microphthalmic orbit.
- Multi-channel orbicularis oculi stimulation to restore eye-blink function in facial paralysis.
- Ophthalmic aspects of orbital injury. A comprehensive diagnostic and management approach.
- Facial transplantation: an anatomic and surgical analysis of the periorbital functional unit.
- Pedicle Flaps Contribute to Endoscopic Skull-Base Surgery and Facial Soft-Tissue Repair: The Diuturnity of Johannes Fredericus Samuel Esser (1877-1946).
- Three primitive reflexes in normal adults.
- Three primitive reflexes in parkinsonism patients.
- The clinonasal line as a reproducible reference guide for optic canal imaging.
- Modified tarsal pillar tarsorrhaphy.
- Spontaneous direct carotid-cavernous fistula in childhood.
- Involutional entropion repair by posterior lamella tightening and myectomy.
Treatments
- Moles
- Birth Defects
- Birthmark
- Strabismus
- Hyperthyroidism
- Blepharitis
- Chalazion
- Conjunctivitis
- Graves' Disease
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