[Spontaneous reduction and absorption of cataracts in childhood].

The authors give an account on spontaneous reduction and absorption of cataracts in nine children. The initial symptom where leukocoria predominated was as a rule detected already in infant age. In one case the affection was bilateral and was manifested by partial pseudoaphakia.

[Retinopathy of prematurity over 3 decades].

The authors give an account of 190 premature infants they treated in 1956-1988, suffering from retinopathy of prematurity--ROP, and for prolonged subsequent periods. As the head of the team followed up all the children, there is an integrated view of the problem. The birth weight of the infants was 640 g--1,900 g.

[Cryocoagulation in the treatment of retinopathy of prematurity].

The authors give an account on cryotherapy of retinopathies in the premature--130 eyes of 93 children treated during 1984-1988. Almost in all children cryocoagulation was made, using a transconjunctival approach, in the avascular periphery of the retina under local instillation anaesthesia. Twenty-eight eyes were coagulated already in stage 2 of the proliferative phase (along with the other more severely affected eye), the results being very satisfactory.