[Sjögren's reticular pigmentary dystrophy (author's transl)]

An examination of two families with reticular pigmentary dystrophy of the retina is reported, and typical findings are reviewed. Visual actuity, visual fields, dark adaptation and color vision were normal; the photopic ERG was normal or subnormal, while the scotopic ERG was normal. Only the EOG findings were pathologic in all of the subjects examined. A description of the various forms of reticular dystrophy and of its differential diagnosis is followed by a discussion concerning the classification of all varieties of this disease as patterned dystrophies of the pigment epithelium.