[Pseudotumor-like superficial conjunctival foreign body].

Pseudo-tumoral presentation of a superficial conjunctival foreign body. A 4-year-old girl was seen in consultation for an apparent conjunctival tumor of the inner canthus of the right eye. With a soft traction, the tumor was detached of the conjunctiva, as it represented in fact a foreign body.

[Choroid melanoma associated with 2 other primary malignant lesions. Apropos of a case].

A case of choroidal melanoma associated to two other primitive malignancies is reported. The patient, a 65-year-old woman had an amelanotic choroidal tumor of her left eye. In her clinical history was found a previously treated kidney carcinoma eight years ago.

Founder effect in GLC1A-linked familial open-angle glaucoma in Northern France.

Open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a highly prevalent cause of visual impairment. Six families grouping 71 living patients affected with juvenile-onset and middle-age POAG (age at diagnosis ranging from 10 to 65 years) were linked to the GLC1A locus. All patients carried a mutation of an evolutionarily conserved asparagine residue to a lysine at position 480 (N480K) in the olfactomedin-homology domain, which is encoded by the third exon of the GLC1A gene.

[Orbital schwannoma. Apropos of a case].

The orbital schwannoma or neurilemoma is a rare tumor. We report herein the single case of a 51-year-old woman presenting an inferior extraconal orbital schwannoma and multiple sclerosis. Surgical treatment with complete excision allowed healing.

[Cataract surgery after bone marrow transplantation. Apropos of 36 cases].

Object: Bone marrow transplantation has improved the prognosis of haematological malignancies, but patients are consequently at considerable risk of developing ocular complications, such as cataracts.

Material And Methods: A retrospective case study of 36 eyes (24 patients), with cataract extraction after the transplantation. Surgery was performed at a mean of 4.

[Bilateral central retinal vein occlusion and circulating anticoagulant].

A case of central retinal vein occlusion with second development of the same type of retinal vein occlusion in the fellow eye, is reported. The patient was a 68 year-old man with a history of thyroid gland disorder and a cardiac arrhythmia. He presented also with bilateral tilted disc.