Dr. Carol L Shields MD
Ophthalmologist
840 Walnut Street Suite 1440 Philadelphia PA, 19107About
Specializing in ophthalmology, Dr. Carol Shields, MD is one of the country's most highly ranked doctors. She currently treats patients in New york, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Shields ...
Education and Training
Univ of Pittsburgh Sch of Med, Pittsburgh Pa 1983
University of Pittsburgh / Main Campus 1983
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 1983
Board Certification
OphthalmologyAmerican Board of OphthalmologyABO
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Bilateral exudative retinopathy as the initial manifestation of retinitis pigmentosa.
- Conjunctival melanoma.
- Dramatic regression of conjunctival and corneal acquired melanosis with topical mitomycin C.
- Management of iris melanoma with secondary glaucoma.
- Orbital tumors in the older adult population.
- Solitary idiopathic choroiditis: the Richard B. Weaver lecture.
- Review: coats disease: the 2001 LuEsther T. Mertz lecture.
- Solitary retinal capillary hemangioma: lack of genetic evidence for von Hippel-Lindau disease.
- Lack of response to chemoreduction in presumed well differentiated retinoblastoma.
- Bilateral multiple orbital Lymphangiomas in a patient with systemic lymphangiomatosis.
- Melanocytoma of optic disk in a patient with neurofibromatosis 2.
- Spontaneous disappearance of presumed retinal astrocytic hyperplasia.
- Editorial: chemotherapy for retinoblastoma.
- Topical mitomycin C for extensive, recurrent conjunctival-corneal squamous cell carcinoma.
- Clinical features of small choroidal melanoma.
Treatments
- Macular Degeneration
- Moles
- Glaucoma
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Retinal Detachment
- Uveitis
- Birthmark
- Strabismus
Fellowships
- Moorfields Eye Hospital
- Wills Eye Hospital 1989
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