[Value of ultrasonography in persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous body. Apropos of 4 cases]. / Intérêt de l'échographie dans la persistance et l'hyperplasie du vitré primitif. A propos de 4 cas.

The authors report 4 patients with complicated persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous. The complications observed are cataract (2 eyes) and retinal detachment (2 eyes). The affection is bilateral in two cases and unilateral in the two other cases. After a short embryologic vitreous recall, the authors present clinical and paraclinical aspects of the condition. The authors focus on the importance of echographic data.

[Bourneville's tuberous sclerosis]. / Sclérose tubéreuse de Bourneville.

We present a case of tuberous sclerosis, classified as phacomatosis. The patient is a young woman admitted to hospital for a tumor in the right eye. The diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis was based on the presence of the various symptoms of this disease. The patient's ophthalmological symptoms were severe. Ophthalmologists must look for these symptoms in all subjects at risk, particularly in patients with epilepsy but also in the presence of cutaneous or visceral symptoms.