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Optic Neuritis in African Americans
Arch Neurol 55:186-192, Phillips,P.H.,et al, 1998
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Article Abstract
The African American study patients with a single episode of demyelinating optic neuritis had visual acuities more severely affected at onset and after 1 year of follow-up compared with the white study patients and with patients in the ONTT.In the African American patients,multiple sclerosis occurred most frequently in a"neuromyelitis optica"form.
 
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