In recent years，there are more and more cases of retinal infectious diseases in China，however，the diagnosis and management of those patients are still big challenges for our ophthalmic clinicians. It is our top priority to improve their capacity of early diagnosis for those diseases. We need to know the relationship between retinal infectious diseases and systemic infections, their predisposing factors. We also need to be familiar with the typical as well as atypical clinical features of those diseases. Vitreoretinal surgery already becomes a powerful tool to make diagnosis of retinal infectious diseases now；we need to make full use of this tool combined with modern technologies of microbiology, cytology, immunology and molecular biology to provide objective scientific evidences for the early diagnosis of retinal infectious diseases.
PURPOSE:To evaluate the B sean ultrasonic examination in diagnosis and prognosis of infectious endophthalmitis in children. METHODS:The hospital records of 44 children with infectious endophthalmitis were retrospectively analysed. The correlation between the initial B scan eehographic findings and the initial vision and the vision at discharge were analysed by t-test. RESULTS :The average visual, acuity was hand moving on admission,and 0.04 at discharge. Both the final vision and the initial vision were associated with the severity of vitreous opacity. The ultrasonic findings including retinal detachment and choroidal detachment were associated with poor vision outcomes. CONCLUSION :The ocular B scan ultrasonic examination was effective to predict the final vision in infectious endophthalmitis in children. （Chin J Ocul Fundus Dis,1997,13: 134-135）