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| Year : 2014 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 79-82 |
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Anhidrosis and nonhealing painless leg ulcer with osteomyelitis in a young boy
Abhijit Dutta1, Sudip Kumar Ghosh2, Amlan Chowdhury1, Arghyaprasun Ghosh2
1 Department of Pediatric Medicine, R G Kar Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprosy, R G Kar Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Correspondence Address:
Sudip Kumar Ghosh
Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprosy, R G Kar Medical College, Kolkata - 700 004, West Bengal
India
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DOI: 10.4103/2319-7250.139504
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The hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies (HSAN) are a group of very rare genetic disorders, characterized by prominent sensory as well as autonomic neuropathy without any motor involvement. Five main groups (type-I through type-V) of HSAN do exist. We report here a case of a chronic nonhealing leg ulcer in a young boy associated with anhidrosis, diagnosed as HSAN type-IV with osteomyelitis, for its rarity, and to emphasize the importance of considering this entity in the differential diagnoses of chronic nonhealing ulcers in the pediatric population. |
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