title: [Main causes of child blindness in People Republic of Congo (author's transl)].
abstract: Report from 18 months of practice in the "Hôpital Général" of Brazzaville. Three groups must be considered: -- Newborns: -- the purulent gonococcal ophtalmia has a bad prognosis and though rather rare, must not be neglected. -- Infants: -- measles, which have in Congo a very high prevalence, induce very frequently corneal ulcers with a great risk of rapide evolution towards hypopyon or panophtalmia; -- congenital cataracts probably related to rubella or toxoplasmosis. -- Children: -- congenital glaucoma; -- retina, with, in first rank, the retinoblastoma which seems particularly frequent in People Republic of Congo; -- traumatisms of various kinds.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology*; D002386:Cataract / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003223:Congo; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000150:complications; D005134:Eye Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008457:Measles / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Les principales causes de cecité chez l'enfant en république populaire du Congo.