Congenital Insensitivity to Pain Overview

Review
In: GeneReviews® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993.
[updated ].

Excerpt

The goals of this overview on congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) are the following.

Goal 1: Describe the clinical characteristics of congenital insensitivity to pain.

Goal 2: Review the causes of congenital insensitivity to pain.

Goal 3: Provide an evaluation strategy to identify the genetic cause of congenital insensitivity to pain in a proband.

Goal 4: Provide a brief summary of management of congenital insensitivity to pain.

Goal 5: Inform genetic risk assessment of family members of a proband with congenital insensitivity to pain.

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