[Cornea-crystalline lens needle-prick wounds from self-mutilation]. / Plagi întepate corneocristaliniene prin automutilare.

Automutilation is a voluntary autoprovoked lesion, which determines infirmities of different degrees. The paper presents the case of a 25-year-old patient, who, being in detention, pricked his both eyes using a needle. This action provoked endophthalmitis and bilateral traumatic cataract. The particularity of the case consists of the bilaterality of the autoagression, with serious evolution at the both eyes.

[The current aspects of functional amblyopia]. / Aspecte actuale în ambliopia functtionala.

Functional amblyopia consists in vision decrease, without organic reversible lesions with an adequate treatment. As etiology the most frequent clinical form is strabismic amblyopia. Different methods of diagnosis and update treatment are presented. We insist about prophylactic attitude consisting of an early depistation of the disease.

[Epithelial tumors of the corneal limbus]. / Tumorile epiteliale ale limbului corneean.

Corneal epithelial tumours are represented by intraepithelial carcinoma, invasive carcinoma and exceptional by melanic tumours with start point in intraepithelial melanocytes, 20 cases of epithelial tumours of epithelial limbus hospitalised in 3 years period, which represented 0.28% of patients, have been studied. Anatomopathological exam shows in 12 cases spinocellular carcinomas, in 2 cases basal cell carcinomas, in one case undifferentiated carcinoma in one case intraepithelial carcinoma and in 4 cases intraepithelial dysplasias. Limbus epithelioma is a very low penetrance tumour, the Bowman membrane being resisting and difficult to surpass. They have a great proliferative power. The tumour ablation with local diathermocoagulation was practiced, and postoperative contact radiotherapy has been done. In a single case a local recidive appeared and in another case the enucleation was practiced, because the tumour entered the ocular globe.