[Clinical problems of different forms of heterochromie(author's transl)]

The causes of hypo- and hyperchromic heterochromia were analysed in 94 patients. The hypochromic forms were the commonest, especially the Fuchs-Herrenschwandt heterochromia, and heterochromia simplex. Also after degenerative diseases and accidents appears almost exclusively hypochromic heterochromia. Causes of hyperchromic heterochromia (siderosis, melanosis, wart-iris) were in the minority. Finally a heterogenous group of pseudoheterochromiae were more closely examined. This group seemed to be mainly hypochromic but in 2 rare cases the pseudoheterochromia was cuased by a brown dystrophy of the repeatedly inflamed cornea, probably associated with repeated fluorescien-staining of large corneal erosions.