INTERNATIONAL ORTHOPAEDICS, vol.22, no.2, pp.139-140, 1998 (SCI-Expanded)
We present a five-year-old girl with congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis. A skeletal radiographic survey revealed several old fractures. Application of pilocarpine showed anhidrosis and nerve biopsy revealed a significant decrease in the number of myelinated and unmyelinated nerve fibres.