[Multiple sclerosis in childhood].

The authors discuss the problems of the age-associated range of multiple sclerosis, characteristics of its clinical manifestations and course in childhood. Provide two cases of multiple sclerosis that had set in 11-year- and 14-year-old children. The first case was marked by a polysymptomatic debut with retrobulbar neuritis of the optical nerves, astereognosis and atetoid hyperkinesis in the hand. The second case was characterized by remitting oculomotor, vestibular, pyramidal disorders associated with facial neuropathy.