[The causes of blindness in the 3rd region of Mali. Study of 101 clinical records].

A retrospective study of 101 blind patients seen in daily consultation has been done in Sikasso's Yeelen Center from January 1988 to October 1989. The results obtained show that the frequency of blindness is 1.3% and that more than 75% of the causes of losing the seeing are due to the pathology of the posterior segment. The optical atrophy represents the major cause of blindness (63% of the cases) with usually a glaucoma excavation. Corneal opacities and the chorioretinal scarrings take respectively the second and the third place with 13% and 10%.