Haemoglobin E in Burmese

A case of sensory radicular neuropathy is described in a boy of 8 years, who has been so deaf from early infancy that he had never acquired speech. He had impaired pain sense at the age of 15 months. There is no family history of the condition. He presented with painless ulceration of the toes, symmetrical loss of deep reflexes, the axon reflex, and impaired sensation to pain and temperature over the periphery of the limbs: proprioception, touch, vasomotor responses, and sweating remaining intact. Histological examination of the peri- pheral sensory nerve showed demyelination.