Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis. 1997

D Aslan, and F Sarikayalar
Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis is one of a group of rare diseases termed hereditary sensory-motor neuropathies. Primary clinical features of this entity include congenital analgesia, inability to sweat, and mental retardation. Besides the rarity of these clinical entities, difficulty in evaluating the sensory disturbances, especially in small children, makes the diagnosis a clinical problem. In this article a 3-year-old boy, with consanguineous parents and no family history of the disorder, who was evaluated for two years because of ulcerating lesions on his knees, is presented. Physical examination revealed deep ulceration on his knees and scars from burns on his neck and scalp. Moderate mental retardation and analgesia were noted. There was symmetrical loss of pain and touch sensation on his hands and feet. Electromyographic examination showed absence of action potentials of the ulnar and sural nerves, decrease in the sensory and motor nerve conduction velocities, and amplitude of action potentials. The result of the application of pilocarpine showed anhidrosis. His skin and nerve biopsy specimens were also examined.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007007 Hypohidrosis Abnormally diminished or absent perspiration. Both generalized and segmented (reduced or absent sweating in circumscribed locations) forms of the disease are usually associated with other underlying conditions. Anhidrosis
D008297 Male Males
D002675 Child, Preschool A child between the ages of 2 and 5. Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000699 Pain Insensitivity, Congenital A syndrome characterized by indifference to PAIN despite the ability to distinguish noxious from non-noxious stimuli. Absent corneal reflexes and INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY may be associated. Familial forms with autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant patterns of inheritance have been described. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1343) Analgesia, Congenital,Pain Indifference, Congenital,Channelopathy-Associated Insensitivity To Pain,Congenital Analgesia,Congenital Indifference to Pain,Congenital Insensitivity To Pain,Congenital Pain Indifference,Congenital Pain Insensitivity,Insensitivity To Pain, Congenital,Insensitivity, Congenital Pain,Congenital Pain Indifferences
D015417 Hereditary Sensory and Motor Neuropathy A group of slowly progressive inherited disorders affecting motor and sensory peripheral nerves. Subtypes include HMSNs I-VII. HMSN I and II both refer to CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE. HMSN III refers to hypertrophic neuropathy of infancy. HMSN IV refers to REFSUM DISEASE. HMSN V refers to a condition marked by a hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy associated with spastic paraplegia (see SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA, HEREDITARY). HMSN VI refers to HMSN associated with an inherited optic atrophy (OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY), and HMSN VII refers to HMSN associated with retinitis pigmentosa. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1343) Dejerine-Sottas Disease,HMSN,HMSN Type III,HMSN Type VII,Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathies,Hereditary, Type III, Motor and Sensory Neuropathy,Hereditary, Type VII, Motor and Sensory Neuropathy,Neuropathies, Hereditary Motor and Sensory,CMT4f,Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, Demyelinating, Type 4f,Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, Type 3,Dejerine-Sottas Neuropathy,Dejerine-Sottas Syndrome,HMSN3,Herditary Sensory and Motor Neuropathy,Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy,Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy 3,Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy Type III,Hypertrophic Neuropathy of Dejerine-Sottas,Charcot Marie Tooth Disease, Type 3,Dejerine Sottas Disease,Dejerine Sottas Neuropathy,Dejerine Sottas Syndrome,Dejerine-Sottas Hypertrophic Neuropathy,Disease, Dejerine-Sottas,HMSN Type IIIs,HMSN Type VIIs,Hypertrophic Neuropathy of Dejerine Sottas,Neuropathy, Dejerine-Sottas,Syndrome, Dejerine-Sottas,Type VII, HMSN

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