Professor of Ophthalmology, Jefferson Medical College
Ophthalmology
Dr. Carol L. Shields, MD
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Doctor Carol L. Shields, MD works in the field of Ophthalmology. He went to University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He received awards:"America's Top Doctors", "Philadelphia Magazine", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer" and "Fellow (FAAO)". Carol Shields is a published doctor. He has 96 papers published. The most current publication "Familial Retinal Arteriolar Tortuosity." Dr. Carol L. Shields accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Familial Retinal Arteriolar Tortuosity.
- OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY OF THE MACULA AFTER PLAQUE RADIOTHERAPY OF ChoroidAL MELANOMA: Comparison of Irradiated Versus Nonirradiated Eyes in 65 Patients.
- Malignant Melanoma Presenting as Pedunculated Lesion of the Caruncle.
- In Vivo Assessment of Macular Vascular Density in Healthy Human Eyes Using Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography.
- Treatment of Retinoblastoma in 2015: Agreement and Disagreement.
- Relationship Between Female Reproductive Factors and Choroidal Nevus in US Women: Analysis of Data From the 2005-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
- Conjunctival Melanoma with Intraocular Extension.
- Subepidermal Calcified Nodule in the Periocular Region: A Report of 6 Cases.
- Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia: From Blue Skies to Blue Dyes-We Still Need Our Ophthalmic Pathologists.
- Diffuse Anterior Retinoblastoma with Globe Salvage and Visual Preservation in 3 Consecutive Cases.
- Posterior Scleral Bowing With Choroidal Nevus on Enhanced-Depth Imaging Optical Coherence Tomography.
- Choroidal Nevus in the United States Adult Population: Racial Disparities and Associated Factors in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
- Juvenile Xanthogranuloma Involving the Eye and Ocular Adnexa: Tumor Control, Visual Outcomes, and Globe Salvage in 30 Patients.
- Double-Blinded, Randomized Phase II Study Using Embolization with or without Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor in Uveal Melanoma with Hepatic Metastases.
- Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Reveals Hidden Fovea Beneath Extensive Vitreous Seeding From Retinoblastoma.
- American Joint Committee on Cancer Classification of Uveal Melanoma (Anatomic Stage) Predicts Prognosis in 7731 Patients: The 2013 Zimmerman Lecture.
- BILATERAL ChoroidAL OSTEOMA: VISUAL ACUITY AT 45-YEAR FOLLOW-UP.
- SCLEROChoroidAL CALCIFICATION: Clinical Features, Outcomes, and Relationship With Hypercalcemia and Parathyroid Adenoma in 179 Eyes.
- Sector iris hemangioma in association with diffuse Choroidal hemangioma.
- CLASSIFICATION OF SCLEROChoroidAL CALCIFICATION BASED ON ENHANCED DEPTH IMAGING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY "MOUNTAIN-LIKE" FEATURES.
- Early Subclinical Macular Edema in Eyes with Uveal Melanoma: Association with Future Cystoid Macular Edema.
- Tumors OF THE NONPIGMENTED EPITHELIUM OF THE CILIARY BODY: The 2013 Lorenz E. Zimmerman Tribute Lecture.
- Using cost-effective intra-arterial chemotherapy to treat Retinoblastoma in Chile.
- Primary Transpupillary Thermotherapy for Choroidal Melanoma in 391 Cases: Importance of Risk Factors in Tumor Control.
- COMBINED HAMARTOMA OF THE RETINA AND RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM: Findings on Enhanced Depth Imaging Optical Coherence Tomography in Eight Eyes.
- ChoroidAL OSTEOMA SHOWS BONE LAMELLA AND VASCULAR CHANNELS ON ENHANCED DEPTH IMAGING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IN 15 EYES.
- Management of Posterior Uveal Melanoma: Past, Present, and Future: The 2014 Charles L. Schepens Lecture.
- ENHANCED DEPTH IMAGING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY OF INTRAOCULAR Tumors: From Placid to Seasick to Rock and Rolling Topography-The 2013 Francesco Orzalesi Lecture.
- Targeted Retinoblastoma management: when to use intravenous, intra-arterial, periocular, and intravitreal chemotherapy.
- Adenocarcinoma of the Retinal Pigment Epithelium: Clinicopathologic Correlation With Paradoxical Immunohistochemical Findings.
- Retinal Metastasis From Systemic Cancer in 8 Cases.
- Hydroxyapatite Orbital Implant in Children Following Enucleation: Analysis of 531 Sockets.
- Retinal CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA: Fifty-Two Years of Clinical Follow-up With Clinicopathologic Correlation.
- Chromosome 3 Status Combined with BAP1 and EIF1AX Mutation Profiles are Associated with Metastasis in Uveal Melanoma.
- Bilateral Lacrimal Gland Disease: Clinical Features of 97 Cases.
- ChoroidAL THICKNESS AFTER INTRAARTERIAL CHEMOTHERAPY FOR RETINOBLASTOMA.
- OUTCOMES OF ANTI-VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR THERAPY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ChoroidAL NEOVASCULARIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH ChoroidAL OSTEOMA.
- An old disease in an atypical place.
- Combined hamartoma of the retina and Retinal pigment epithelium in branchio-otic syndrome.
- Massive macronodular juvenile xanthogranuloma of the eyelid in a newborn.
- Iris Stromal Cyst Management With Absolute Alcohol-Induced Sclerosis in 16 Patients.
- ENHANCED DEPTH IMAGING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY OF ChoroidAL METASTASIS IN 14 EYES.
- Choroidal melanoma: clinical features, classification, and top 10 pseudomelanomas.
- Plaque Radiotherapy for Juxtapapillary Choroidal Melanoma: Treatment Complications and Visual Outcomes in 650 Consecutive Cases.
- Intravitreal melphalan for persistent or recurrent Retinoblastoma vitreous seeds: preliminary results.
- Enhanced Sensitivity for Detection of Low-Level Germline Mosaic RB1 Mutations in Sporadic Retinoblastoma Cases Using Deep Semiconductor Sequencing.
- Intra-arterial Chemotherapy for Retinoblastoma in 70 Eyes: Outcomes Based on the International Classification of Retinoblastoma.
- Optical coherence tomography characteristics of epi-iridic membrane in a child with recurrent hyphema and presumed juvenile xanthogranuloma.
- ChoroidAL LYMPHOMA SHOWS CALM, RIPPLED, OR UNDULATING TOPOGRAPHY ON ENHANCED DEPTH IMAGING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IN 14 EYES.
- Plaque Radiotherapy in the Management of Scleral-Invasive Conjunctival Squamous Cell Carcinoma: An Analysis of 15 Eyes.
- Choroidal metastasis from leiomyosarcoma in two cases.
- Choroidal lymphoma: clinical features and association with systemic lymphoma.
- Iris microhemangiomatosis with videographically documented active bleeding and vision loss.
- Retinal Vasoproliferative Tumors in 6 Patients With Neurofibromatosis Type 1.
- Diffuse Choroidal hemangioma management with plaque radiotherapy in 5 cases.
- Congenital Hypertrophy of the Retinal Pigment Epithelium: Enhanced-Depth Imaging Optical Coherence Tomography in 18 Cases.
- Intravitreal Bevacizumab at 4-Month Intervals for Prevention of Macular Edema after Plaque Radiotherapy of Uveal Melanoma.
- Choroidal Melanocytosis Evaluation with Enhanced Depth Imaging Optical Coherence Tomography.
- Orbital pseudotumor versus idiopathic nongranulomatous Orbital inflammation.
- Headache or eye pain as the presenting feature of uveal melanoma.
- Extraocular extension of uveal melanoma after fine-needle aspiration, vitrectomy, and open biopsy.
- Uveal Metastasis from Lung Cancer: Clinical Features, Treatment, and Outcome in 194 Patients.
- Monthly intravitreal bevacizumab for Macular edema after iodine-125 plaque radiotherapy of uveal melanoma.
- Ciliary Body and Choroidal Pseudomelanoma from Ultrasonographic Imaging of Hypermature Cataract in 20 Cases.
- Association of ocular and oculodermal melanocytosis with the rate of uveal melanoma metastasis: analysis of 7872 consecutive Eyes.
- Giant conjunctival nevus: clinical features and natural course in 32 cases.
- Incidence of Pineal Gland Cyst and Pineoblastoma in Children With Retinoblastoma During the Chemoreduction Era.
- Waardenburg Syndrome: Iris and Choroidal Hypopigmentation: Findings on Anterior and Posterior Segment Imaging.
- Genomic Profile of 320 Uveal Melanoma Cases: Chromosome 8p-loss and Metastatic Outcome.
- Peripheral exudative hemorrhagic chorioretinopathy: a variant of polypoidal Choroidal vasculopathy?
- Cutaneous Vitiligo Following Management of Uveal Melanoma in 6 Patients.
- Inadvertent implantation of aqueous tube shunts in glaucomatous eyes with unrecognized intraocular Neoplasms: report of 5 cases.
- MANAGEMENT OF ADVANCED Retinoblastoma WITH INTRAVENOUS CHEMOTHERAPY THEN INTRA-ARTERIAL CHEMOTHERAPY AS ALTERNATIVE TO ENUCLEATION.
- Uveal melanoma in children and teenagers.
- Ciliary body medulloepithelioma: analysis of 41 cases.
- Conjunctival papilloma: features and outcomes based on age at initial examination.
- American Joint Committee on Cancer Classification of Posterior Uveal Melanoma (Tumor Size Category) Predicts Prognosis in 7731 Patients.
- Late-onset necrotizing scleritis due to pigmented mycetoma (dematiaceous fungi) in 2 cases.
- Choroidal Hemorrhage Simulating Choroidal Melanoma.
- Solitary idiopathic Choroiditis: findings on enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography in 10 cases.
- CilioChoroidal metastasis as the initial manifestation of an occult soft-tissue extraosseous sarcoma in a 10-year-old girl.
- DIFFUSE VERSUS NONDIFFUSE SMALL (?3 MM THICKNESS) ChoroidAL MELANOMA: Comparative Analysis in 1,751 Cases. The 2012 F. Phinizy Calhoun Lecture.
- Interferon for ocular surface squamous neoplasia in 81 cases: outcomes based on the American Joint Committee on Cancer classification.
- Metastasis from Uveal Melanoma Associated with Congenital Ocular Melanocytosis: A Matched Study.
- Tumor-related lipid exudation and associated tumor-related complications after plaque radiotherapy of posterior uveal melanoma.
- Influence of age on prognosis of young patients with uveal melanoma: a matched retrospective cohort study.
- Autofluorescence of intraocular tumours.
- Retinoblastoma frontiers with intravenous, intra-arterial, periocular, and intravitreal chemotherapy.
- Lesions simulating Retinoblastoma (pseudoRetinoblastoma) in 604 cases: results based on age at presentation.
- Cancer and the eye: giant steps forward. The Cambridge Symposium 2012.
- High-Risk Retinoblastoma Based on International Classification of Retinoblastoma: Analysis of 519 Enucleated Eyes.
- Pigmented Choroidal nevus in a child with oculocutaneous albinism.
- Transient increased exudation after photodynamic therapy of intraocular Tumors.
- Iris Nevus Growth into Melanoma: Analysis of 1611 Consecutive Eyes: The ABCDEF Guide.
- Scleral Necrosis after Plaque Radiotherapy of Uveal Melanoma: A Case-Control Study.
Schools
University of Pittsburgh Main Campus
Mercy
Wills Eye Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Conjunctivoplasty
- Destruction of Lesion of Retina and Choroid
- Enucleation of Eye
- Extraocular Muscle Surgery
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Conditions Treated
- Benign Neoplasm of Choroid
- Benign Neoplasm of Eye
- ChorioRetinal Scars
- Diabetic Retinopathy
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Doctors Specialties
- Ophthalmology
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna
- Regional Pref Network EPO
- Regional Pref Network HMO
- Regional Pref Network HMO+
- Regional Pref Network POS+
- Regional Pref Network PPO
- Assurant Health
- Blue Card PPO
- CHAMPVA
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Connecticare
- CoreSource
- Coventry Health Care
- EBS-RMSCO
- Emblem Health
- Fidelis Care HMO
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Geisinger Health Plan
- Golden Rule
- GEHA
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care PPO
- HealthPartners
- Choice Care PPO
- MedHealthInsurance
- Medicare MCR
- NGS CoreSource
- One Net PPO
- PHP-Physicians Health Plan
- Planned Administration Inc
- POMCO Group
- QualCare
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
- UPMC Health Plan
- Wells Fargo Insurance
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Philadelphia Magazine
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- Fellow (FAAO)
Education
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Wills Eye Hospital -
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Mercy Hospital -
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Hospital
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Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1578652988 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | SHIELDS | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | CAROL | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 19107 | |
| NPPES Provider State | PA | |
| Specialty Description | Ophthalmology | |
| Total Claim Count | 514.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 2.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 69.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 13.42 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1578652988 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | SHIELDS |
| First Name Of The Provider | CAROL |
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