[The importance of ultrasonic study in optimizing the surgical treatment of congenital cataract in children].

The paper presents results after observation over 385 children (628 eyes) with congenital cataracts, aged from 2 months to 15 years. Ophthalmic echographic examinations by the author's method of 427 eyes allowed to reveal changes in the posterior segment of the eye, to determine sizes of the eye ball, thickness of the lens, structure and kind of cataract. Complex clinico-echographic diagnostics permitted to receive full information about the state of the cataractous lens in 96.7% of cases (by means of a combined A- and B-method of echography). On the grounds of perfected preoperative diagnostics considering echographic criteria a system of differential surgical treatment for congenital cataracts was worked out and used at the time of 123 operations, this allowing to lower the number of operative and postoperative complications, to shorten the postoperative bed-day, to improve the morphological and functional effect of the operation.