[Surgery of ectopia lentis in Marfan disease in children and young adults].

Introduction: To determine the visual outcome of surgical therapy and conservative management, we retrospectively reviewed all our patients with ectopia lentis and Marfan's disease.

Material And Method: Thirty-five eyes of 18 patients (age 8 to 47, average 25.3) were studied.

[Surgical treatment of traumatic retinal detachment in children under 15 years of age].

The clinical features and results of surgical management of 68 out of a series of 101 cases of traumatic retinal detachment in childhood are described and analysed. Follow-up, in particular after the removal of silicon oil used temporarily, was always been longer than six months. Cases were divided into three groups: contusions, ocular injuries without foreign body and with foreign body.

[Surgical treatment of non-traumatic retinal detachment in children under 15 years of age].

Etiological and clinical features of 151 retinal detachments in childhood are studied and discussed. Results of surgical management of 92 of them, after at least a 6 month follow-up, especially after ablation of silicon oil when used temporarily, are described. Clinical aspects of the contralateral eyes and their prophylactic treatment is also studied.

[Cyclodiathermy: is it effective in the treatment of glaucoma?].

The authors describe the non penetrating technique of cyclodiathermy in the treatment of different types of glaucoma and publish the results and the complications of the application of this technique on thirty three eyes among their patients. These eyes included congenital glaucoma (8 eyes), aphakic glaucoma (5 eyes), after silicone surgery (5 eyes), neovascular glaucoma (4 eyes), traumatic glaucoma (4 eyes), secondary glaucoma (3 eyes), Sturge-Weber-Krabbe (2 eyes) and open angle glaucoma (2 eyes). Their study with a mean follow up of 2.

[Classification of retinal degeneration in children].

A classification of the hereditary retinal degenerations in childhood is presented. It is based on an histopathologic approach. It includes rods and cones dysfunctions, pigment epithelium degenerations and vitreoretinal degenerations.

[Benign isolated 6th nerve paralysis in children. Developmental aspects apropos of 9 new cases].

Benign isolated VI nerve palsy in children is a rare but now well-established clinical entity. The diagnosis is essentially an exclusion one. We report nine additional cases.

[6 new cases of spasmus nutans].

Six new born presenting an acquired nystagmus, associated with rhythmic head movements, have been explored clinically, electrophysiologically and neuroradiologically. Etiopathogenic hypotheses and experimental models are proposed. A twenty last years literature review is mentioned.

[Juvenile aggressive palpebral fibromatosis. Apropos of a case].

Juvenile Aggressive Fibromatosis (JAF) is histologically characterized by a fibroblastic cellular proliferation. Even though benign, it is locally invasive and very often recurrent but never induces metastasis; the evolutionary argument is the only one which enables us to differentiate JAF from fibrosarcoma. The selected treatment is extensive surgical excision including healthy tissue with histological control.

Magnetic resonance imaging of the opto-chiasmatic region. Report on 276 cases.

A total of 276 lesions in the sellar and parasellar region were studied with magnetic resonance imaging using two different magnets of 0.15 and 0.5 T, respectively.

[Sarcoidosis in a child disclosed by blindness with major hypercalcemia].

We report here a case of sarcoidosis, observed in a 12 year-old algerian girl. When the child was examined, at an advanced stage of the disease, her clinical condition was very critical, associating blindness, cachexia, hepatic and splenic enlargement, and major hypercalcaemia. Though chest roentgenograms were normal, the results of both functional pulmonary tests and broncho-alveolar lavage were pathologic.

[Strabismus and amblyopia. Value of their early detection].

The authors emphasize the importance of the relations between strabismus and amblyopia. Strabismus is often the symptom which leads to the discovery of amblyopia. Amblyopia may cause strabismus, as in organic amblyopias induced by congenital lesions of the retina or visual pathways, and visual deprivation amblyopias due to corneal opacities and/or congenital cataracts.

[Rubella and congenital cataracts].

Between April 3, 1977 and June 6, 1980, 97 children with congenital cataracts and 97 evenly matched control children were examined in order to clarify the biological criteria of congenital rubella and to estimate its importance in the etiology of congenital cataracts. Although the age limit had been fixed at 60 months, the 1978 rubella outbreak accelerated the immunization in young children and resulted in difficulties in interpreting some results. All children presenting with congenital cataracts associated with clinical symptoms of rubella embryopathy displayed anti-rubella antibodies including anti-rubella IgM up to the 13th month: they represent 16% of cases with congenital cataracts in this series.