[Early primary congenital glaucoma].

Early primary congenital glaucoma belongs to the category of primary congenital glaucomas and is regarded as one of the most frequent form of congenital glaucoma, in which case the intraocular hypertension usually appears in as early as the first year of living before the age of three or four, caused by mesodermic anomalies during the development of anterior chamber angle, leading to the stretching of the scleral wall and to the increase of the eye, known as buphthalmos and which associates with no other ocular or systemic anomaly. It is more frequently met as a bilateral one. The diagnostic methods include: history, the measurement of corneal diameter, the slitlamp examination, tonometry, gonioscopy, ophthalmoscopy, ultrasonography. The basic treatment is a surgical operation and must be provided as soon as possible.