According to recent research from Seoul, South Korea, "To study the clinical characteristics of multiple sclerosis and associated optic neuritis in Korean children. A retrospective analysis was performed on 10 patients with an onset of multiple sclerosis before age 16."

"Information on sex, age of onset, clinical course, laboratory findings, and clinical characteristics of optic neuritis was obtained. The mean age at presentation was 7.31 2.99 years, and the mean duration of observation was 36.2 26.1 months. No female predilection (50%) was observed. The disease presented as relapsing-remitting type multiple sclerosis in all patients and transited to secondary progressive type in two cases (20%). No oligoclonal bands were found in any patient..............

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