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Congenital Insensitivity to Pain Overview

Katherine Rose Schon  1 , Alasdair Patrick John Parker  2 , Christopher Geoffrey Woods  3
Margaret P Adam, Jerry Feldman, Ghayda M Mirzaa, Roberta A Pagon, Stephanie E Wallace, Anne Amemiya
, editors.
In: GeneReviews® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993.
[updated ].
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Congenital Insensitivity to Pain Overview

Katherine Rose Schon et al.
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The purpose of this overview is to:

  1. 1

    Describe the clinical characteristics of congenital insensitivity to pain;

  2. 2

    Review the causes of congenital insensitivity to pain;

  3. 3

    Provide an evaluation strategy to identify the genetic cause of congenital insensitivity to pain in a proband;

  4. 4

    Provide a brief summary of management of congenital insensitivity to pain;

  5. 5

    Inform genetic risk assessment of family members of a proband with congenital insensitivity to pain.

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