[The Marinescu-Sjögren syndrome].

The patient, 54 years old, has an evolutive bilateral congenital cataract, with lens opacities, initially placed in posterior cortex and which developed to a total cataract. The patient also present oligophrenia, spinocerebral ataxia and trophic disturbances with kyphoscoliosis and extremities deforms. We insist on the research of the trophic and neurological disturbances at the patients with congenital cataract for the elucidation of some etiopathogenic aspects in the degenerative syndrome described by Marinescu.