Congenital insensitivity to pain and anhydrosis: a report of two cases.

نویسندگان

  • Maharajan Karthikeyan
  • Thimmaiah Sreenivas
  • Jagdish Menon
  • Dilip Kumar Patro
چکیده

We report on 2 patients with congenital insensitivity to pain and anhydrosis. The first one was a 7-month-old boy who presented with non-traumatic, haematogenous septic dislocation of the right elbow with physeal separation of the distal humerus. The second one was a 3-year-old girl suspected to have Job syndrome with an altered immunological profile.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of orthopaedic surgery

دوره 21 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013