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Overview

Jerry A. Shields is affiliated with Wills Eye Hospital in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with a particular emphasis on ophthalmology and oncology. The subfields that they have contributed to include ophthalmology, oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, molecular biology, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work spans several main topics such as ocular oncology and treatments, cutaneous melanoma detection and management, glaucoma and retinal disorders, brain metastases and treatment, nonmelanoma skin cancer studies, ocular infections and treatments, and vascular tumors and angiosarcomas.

Jerry A. Shields has coauthored extensively with several researchers, including Carol L. Shields, Sara E. Lally, Lauren A. Dalvin, Tatyana Milman, and Antonio Yaghy. Carol L. Shields appears as a frequent collaborator with fifty-one joint publications, followed by Sara E. Lally with twenty-four, Lauren A. Dalvin with thirteen, Tatyana Milman with twelve, and Antonio Yaghy with eleven shared works.

The researcher has published articles in a variety of scientific venues, among which the most frequent include Ophthalmology Retina, Eye, Ophthalmology, American Journal of Ophthalmology, and European Journal of Ophthalmology.

Selected recent papers reflect the scope and depth of their research:

  • Uveal melanoma, 2020, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Long-term (20-year) real-world outcomes of intravenous chemotherapy (chemoreduction) for retinoblastoma in 964 eyes of 554 patients at a single centre, 2020, British Journal of Ophthalmology
  • Metastatic tumours to the eye. Review of metastasis to the iris, ciliary body, choroid, retina, optic disc, vitreous, and/or lens capsule, 2022, Eye
  • Intra-arterial chemotherapy for retinoblastoma in 341 consecutive eyes (1,292 infusions): comparative analysis of outcomes based on patient age, race, and sex, 2021, Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
  • An Outcome Assessment of a Single Institution's Longitudinal Experience with Uveal Melanoma Patients with Liver Metastasis, 2020, Cancers

Best Publications

  • Survey of 1264 patients with orbital tumors and simulating lesions: The 2002 Montgomery Lecture, part 1.

    Jerry A Shields;Carol L Shields;Richard Scartozzi

  • Survey of 520 eyes with uveal metastases.

    Carol L. Shields;Jerry A. Shields;Nicole E. Gross;Geoffrey P. Schwartz

  • The International Classification of Retinoblastoma predicts chemoreduction success.

    Carol L. Shields;Arman Mashayekhi;Angela K. Au;Craig Czyz

  • Tumors of the conjunctiva and cornea

    Carol L Shields;Jerry A Shields

  • Metastasis of Uveal Melanoma Millimeter-by-Millimeter in 8033 Consecutive Eyes

    Carol L. Shields;Minoru Furuta;Archana Thangappan;Saya Nagori

  • Color Doppler imaging of the eye and orbit. Technique and normal vascular anatomy.

    Wolfgang E. Lieb;Steven M. Cohen;Daniel A. Merton;Jerry A. Shields

  • Conjunctival melanoma: risk factors for recurrence, exenteration, metastasis, and death in 150 consecutive patients.

    Carol L. Shields;Jerry A. Shields;Kaan Gündüz;Jacqueline Cater

  • Sebaceous carcinoma of the eyelids: Personal experience with 60 cases

    Jerry A. Shields;Hakan Demirci;Brian P. Marr;Ralph C. Eagle

  • Classification and management of Coats disease: the 2000 Proctor Lecture.

    Jerry A Shields;Carol L Shields;Santosh G Honavar;Hakan Demirci

  • Chemoreduction in the Initial Management of Intraocular Retinoblastoma

    C L Shields;P De Potter;B P Himelstein;J A Shields

  • SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF CONJUNCTIVAL TUMORS. THE 1994 LYNN B. MCMAHAN LECTURE

    J A Shields;C L Shields;P De Potter

  • Classification and incidence of space-occupying lesions of the orbit: a survey of 645 biopsies

    Jerry A. Shields;Brock Bakewell;James J. Augsburger;Joseph C. Flanagan

  • Clinical variations and complications of Coats disease in 150 cases: the 2000 Sanford Gifford Memorial Lecture

    Jerry A Shields;Carol L Shields;Sontash G Honavar;Hakan Demirci

  • Clinical survey of 1643 melanocytic and nonmelanocytic conjunctival tumors.

    Carol L. Shields;Hakan Demirci;Ekaterina Karatza;Jerry A. Shields

  • Sebaceous Carcinoma of the Ocular Region: A Review

    Jerry A. Shields;Hakan Demirci;Brian P. Marr;Ralph C. Eagle

  • Cancer metastatic to the orbit: the 2000 Robert M. Curts Lecture.

    Jerry A. Shields;Carol L. Shields;Heather K. Brotman;Cynthia Carvalho

  • Risk Factors for Growth and Metastasis of Small Choroidal Melanocytic Lesions

    Carol L. Shields;Jerry A. Shields;Hayyam Kiratli;Patrick De Potter

  • Congenital Pits of the Optic Nerve Head: II. Clinical Studies in Humans

    Gary C. Brown;Jerry A. Shields;Richard E. Goldberg

  • Fine-needle Aspiration Biopsy of Suspected Intraocular Tumors: The 1992 Urwick Lecture

    Jerry A. Shields;Carol L. Shields;Hormoz Ehya;Ralph C. Eagle

  • Retinoblastoma management: advances in enucleation, intravenous chemoreduction, and intra-arterial chemotherapy.

    Carol L Shields;Jerry A Shields

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol L. Shields
Carol L. Shields Thomas Jefferson University
Larry A. Donoso
Larry A. Donoso Wills Eye Hospital
Anna T. Meadows
Anna T. Meadows Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Gary C. Brown
Gary C. Brown SUNY Upstate Medical University
Lawrence A. Yannuzzi
Lawrence A. Yannuzzi Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
Hans E. Grossniklaus
Hans E. Grossniklaus Emory University
Robert H. Rosenwasser
Robert H. Rosenwasser Thomas Jefferson University
Jay S. Duker
Jay S. Duker Tufts Medical Center
Carlo M. Croce
Carlo M. Croce The Ohio State University
David E. Elder
David E. Elder Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

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