[Orthopedic problems in children with congenital insensitivity to pain].
Three children with congenital insensitivity to pain are described. Self-injuries of the tongue and fingers occurred during dentition. At infancy and early childhood fever of unknown origin and/or pneumoniae were observed in all children. All of them also suffered from osteomyelitis of various bones treated with antibiotics and surgery. The tibia and metatarsals were involved in one case, the tibia, metatarsals and the femur in second child and the jaw plus metatarsals in the third case. In one child the hip has been dislocated twice after minor trauma, lumbar arthropathy, distal femoral epiphyseal fusion causing shortening of the extremity by 4.5 cm, osteochondritis dissecans of the medial femoral condyle, elbow deformity after displaced fracture of the lateral humeral condyle and post-traumatic cataract were observed.
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Oddział Ortopedii, Klinika Chirurgii Dzieciecej, Krakowie.
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004838:Epiphyses / Q000601:surgery; D005269:Femur / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008682:Metatarsal Bones / Q000601:surgery; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000379:methods*; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000601:surgery*; D000699:Pain Insensitivity, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010147:Pain Measurement
Problemy ortopedyczne u dzieci z wrodzona niewrazliwościa na ból.