Congenital Insensitivity to Pain: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disease caused by mutations in the SCN9A gene. We report a patient with the clinical features consistent with CIP in whom we detected a novel homozygous G2755T mutation in exon 15 of this gene. Routine electrophysiological...

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Main Authors: Leema Reddy Peddareddygari, Kinsi Oberoi, Raji P. Grewal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Neurological Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/141953
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