Erratum

This article refers to:

Does this optic neuritis patient have neuromyelitis optica? An approach to optic neuritis in the context of neuromyelitis optica

Correction to: Does this optic neuritis patient have neuromyelitis optica? An approach to optic neuritis in the context of neuromyelitis optica

Burton JM, Costello F. Does this optic neuritis patient have neuromyelitis optica? An approach to optic neuritis in the context of neuromyelitis optica. Expert Rev Ophthalmol 2014;9(3):205-16.

Following publication of this article, errors have been identified in Box 2. The corrected Box 2 is shown below.

Box 2. Diagnostic criteria for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder.

• Limited forms of NMO

  • – ‘Idiopathic’ single or recurrent events of longitudinally extensive myelitis 3 vertebral segment spinal cord MRI lesion)

  • – Optic neuritis, recurrent or simultaneous bilateral

• Asian optico-spinal MS

• Optic neuritis or longitudinally extensive myelitis associated with systemic autoimmune disease

• Optic neuritis or myelitis associated with NMO-typical brain lesions (hypothalamic, corpus callosal, periventricular, brainstem)

Notes

Data taken from [3]