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Occurrence of MRI abnormalities in patients with isolated optic neuritis
D Städt1, L Kappos, E Rohrbach
1Max-Planck-Society, Clinical Research Unit for Multiple Sclerosis, FRG.
European Neurology
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
24 patients with clinically isolated optic neuritis (ON) were examined with MRI. Only 5 patients (22.9%) had a normal MRI scan. The number of detected clinically silent lesions ranged from 0 to 38. They were mainly located in the frontal and parietal white matter. All patients with more than 3 lesions on MRI had pathological findings in CSF. There was no correlation between the number and location of lesions and age at onset of ON.