“…In adult onset MS patients, a polysymptomatic manifestation is observed in only 35-43% of the MS patients [1,25,27], whereas it was reported in 67% of the ESPED paediatric MS-cohort. Other studies on paediatric MS have shown lower frequencies, ranging from 10 to 44%, but these studies were mostly retrospective [3,8,9,11,27]. Remarkably, recently published preliminary results of a prospective study on paediatric MS in Canada reported a monosymptomatic presentation in only 36% of the patients, which is close to the 33% of our study [1].…”