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The Multiple Sclerosis Performance Test (MSPT): An iPad-Based Disability Assessment Tool
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Very early onset multiple sclerosis
G F Cole1, L A Auchterlonie, P V Best
1Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, Aberdeen, UK.
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
|August 1, 1995
Abstract:
The authors report two cases of multiple sclerosis occurring in very young children. Age at onset in one child was 13 months; he had the primary progressive form of the condition and died at nine years. Age at onset of the other child was two years; he has the classical relapsing-remitting form and is well at 15 years. These children illustrate the broad clinical spectrum of the condition even in very-early-onset disease.
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