[Kearns-Sayre syndrome: a case report].

Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS), first described in 1958, is a multisystem disease defined by a characteristic triad of progressive external ophthalmoplegia, pigmentary retinopathy and atrioventricular block. These signs are frequently associated with increased cerebrospinal fluid protein level and cerebellar ataxia. This syndrome is caused by deletions in mitochondrial DNA, the age of onset is generally below 20, and the degree of severity differs between patients, as well as the prognosis, which may be fatal.

Diagnosis and management of palpebral anthrax.

Anthrax is an infectious disease that is not well known by ophthalmologists. In its cutaneous form, it may produce lesions of the eyelids. We report eight cases of palpebral anthrax.

[Iris metastasis from lung cancer].

A 47-year-old man with a history of lung adenocarcinoma presented a red and painful right eye with loss of visual acuity after the 5th course of chemotherapy. The ophthalmologic exam showed visual acuity at 3/10 and diffuse iris nodular lesions in the same eye. The fundus was not visible.

[Bilateral Sturge-Weber-Krabbe syndrome. A case report].

Sturge-Weber-Krabbe syndrome is a rare congenital neuro-oculo-cutaneous disease, characterized by an unilateral facial vascular nevus which affects at least the first branch of the trigeminal nerve, associated with an ipsilateral leptomeningeal angioma and ipsilateral vascular lesions of the choroid sometimes leading to glaucoma. Variants of this classical presentation have been described in the literature, some of which have prognosis significance. We report an unusual case of an 11-year-old male with a serious bilateral glaucoma associated with a bilateral facial nevus flammeus and cerebral calcifications without neurological symptoms.

[Ophthalmomyiasis interna: two case studies].

Myiasis is a pathology caused by the presence of fly larvae in the human organism. Ophthalmomyiasis interna is characterized by the presence of the parasite within the eye but also in the eyelids and the orbit. Herein, the authors present the clinical cases of two patients presenting ophthalmomyiasis interna revealed by retinal detachment for the first patient and by panuveitis for the second patient.