Pattern of uveitis in children.

THE comparatively few accounts of uveitis in children all agree that it is uncommon (Table I). This report concerns 150 cases of uveitis starting before the age of 16 years. Most of the children were below this age when first seen; although 5 were aged between 16 and 20 and 3 were over 20, there was good documentary evidence that the uveitis had started before the age of 16. The 150 cases represent 5 per cent. of the total of 2,890 referred to the Uveitis Clinic of the Institute of Ophthalmology in the period from 1956 to 1964. The proportion of children under 15 years of age in the population of England and Wales in 1951 was over 20 per cent., so that there are fewer cases of uveitis in children than would be expected from the age structure of the population. It is interesting that Davis (1953) found a similar proportion of cases of uveitis in children-21 out of a total of 400-and Kimura, Hogan, and Thygeson (1954) 5 8 per cent. of 810 cases of uveitis.