how to cite this article: karimi m, fallah r. a case report of congenital insensitivity to pain and anhidrosis (cipa). iran j child neurol 2012; 6(3): 45-48.   congenital insensitivity to pain and anhidrosis (cipa) or hereditary sensoryautonomic neuropathies type iv (hsan type iv) is an extremely rare autosomalrecessive disorder initially described by swanson in 1963.we report a 2.5-year-old bo...

Congenital Insensitivity to pain with anhydrosis (CIPA) is a rare inherited disease. It is classified as hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type IV. Pain insensitivity and autonomic deficits are present, but touch and pressure sensitivity are unimpaired. Mental retardation is usually present. We report a family case of a 5 years old girl and 2 years old boy with congenital insensitivit...

Pain is neuroanatomically, psychologically and neurophysiologically complicated and its first function is protecting all alive creature body. This issue is so questionable and interesting that people who don’t feel pain how face this sensation and what problems threaten them. So many researchers by using 73 references, articles from electronical and library references have done a clinical...

how to cite this article: azadvari m, emami razavi sz, kazemi sh. hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type iv in 9 year old boy: a case report. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):83-85. abstract objective the hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy (hsan) is a rare group of neuropathies that affects the sensory and autonomic nervous system. the patients do not have the ability ...

Congenital Insensitivity to Pain belongs to the family of Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathies (HSAN). It is a rare disorder of unknown etiology associated with loss of pain sensation. Cognition and sensation is otherwise normal and there is no detectable physical abnormality. We report a case of Congenital Insensitivity to Pain in a 3 year old female child.

INTRODUCTION Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) is a rare disorder, and often presents to an orthopaedic surgeon as recurrent fractures, dislocations, pseudoarthrosis, osteomyelitis etc. Here, we report a case of congenital insensitivity to pain presenting with distal femoral physeal separation in a child. CASE REPORT A 12-year-old girl child came with complaints of limp while walking and...