[Acrylic IOL implantation with the Monarch II injector].

Purpose: To study the technical difficulties using the MONARCH II injector, intraoperative incidents, postoperative astigmatism.

Methods: Retrospective study which included 135 eyes with cataract who underwent cataract surgery between March 2002-August 2003. The surgical intervention consisted of lens extraction by phacoemulsification technique and IOL implantation with the MONARCH II injector.

[Optic nerve bilateral atrophy in a suprachiasmatic astrocytoma].

The paper presents a clinical case of a 5 years old child with bilateral optic atrophy and the specific diagnosis and treatment problems of this case. The image investigations have a major part in establishing the positive diagnosis: computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and the elective treatment belongs to the field of neurosurgery.