Dr. David A Chesnutt MD
Ophthalmologist
5133 Bioinformatics Building Cb 7040 Unc Chapel Hill NC, 27599About
Dr. David Chesnutt is an ophthalmologist practicing in Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Chesnutt specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Chesnutt 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. Chesnutt 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.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prognostic significance of vascular dilation and tortuosity insufficient for plus disease in retinopathy of prematurity.
- Stage IV primitive-appearing sinus and orbital rhabdomyosarcoma presenting in a 68-year-old female previously treated for breast cancer.
- Shader Lamps Virtual Patients: the physical manifestation of virtual patients.
- Perineural optic nerve enhancement on magnetic resonance imaging in giant cell arteritis.
- Increasing intraocular pressure as treatment for papilledema.
- Spectrum and Clinical Course of Visual Field Abnormalities in Ethambutol Toxicity.
- A Rare Ocular Presentation of Metastatic Lung Cancer: Unilateral Anterior Chamber Angle, Bilateral Choroidal, and Multiple Intracranial Metastases.
- Retrospective analysis of translaminar, demographic, and physiologic parameters in relation to papilledema severity.
- Pellucid marginal corneal degeneration 12 years after penetrating keratoplasty for keratoconus.
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