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Editor,—Involvement of the central nervous system in Behçet’s disease (BD) occurs in approximately 10–49%1 of patients and the frequency of ocular manifestations is believed to be in the range of 28–80%.2 Neuropapillitis has been reported very rarely as a manifestation of Behçet’s disease.3 As far as we know, there has been no report of paediatric onset neuropapillitis in BD. Here we report a case of neuropapillitis in a 10 year old girl.
CASE REPORT
A 10 year old Omani girl presented in August 1998 with complaint of right sided headache and blurring of vision in the right eye for 10 days and complete loss of vision in the same eye for 5 days. There was no history of vomiting, loss of consciousness, convulsion, or any other neurological deficit. On admission, examination revealed total vision loss in the right eye. The vision was 20/20 in the left eye. Examination of right eye showed relative afferent …