[Main causes of child blindness in People Republic of Congo (author's transl)].

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.