Dorrit Hvams Dercums Disease Page (Danish (Health/Skin_Disorders)
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Description: This is the English page of a Danish language site describing Dercums Disease use... Microsoft IE or Netscape 6.x to view.Description of Dercums Disease
Specializes in: dercums disease adiposis dolorosa dercum lipomas...

eMedicine Adiposis Dolorosa : Article by Nada Macaron, MD (Health/Skin_Disorders)
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Description: Overview article describing Dercums Disease. It is a melding of the various existing... Dercum articles into a coherent presentation.Adiposis Dolorosa First described in 1892 by the American neurologist Francis Xavier Dercum at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pa, Dercum disease is an unusual progressive syndrome of unknown etiology characterized by multiple painful lipomas that arise in adult life, most often affecting postmenopausal women who are obese (Dercum, 1892). The onset is insidious. The pain is out of proportion to the physical findings and is often described by patients as all fat hurts. The pain increases with increases
Specializes in: adiposis dolorosa dercums disease dercum disease painful lipoma fatty tissue rheumatism juxtaarticular adiposis dolorosa... knees

CorticosteroidInduced Juxtaarticular Adiposis Dolorosa (Health/Skin_Disorders)
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Description: This article discusses a case of Dercums Disease in the knee that was apparently... caused by corticosteroid usage.This site discusses the symptoms, personal stories and research that has been done in the study of Dercums Disease (Adiposis Dolorosa). This is a article on corticosteroids
Specializes in: dercum disease adiposis dolorosa dercums painful fat tumors pain autosomal dominant... nerve lesions

Dercums Syndrome, Lipomatosis DolorosaAdiposis Dolorosa and Morbus Dercum (Health/Skin_Disorders)
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Description: Generally describes the disease. The author thinks that it may respond to special... diet.Relatively unknown disease like Lipomatosis Dolorosa also know as Adiposis Dolorosa or Morbus Dercum and Dercums Syndrome May Respond to Special Diet
Specializes in: lipomatosis dolorosa adiposis dolorosa morbus dercum dercums syndrome...

BrorsonFagher Article on Dercums Disease or Adiposis Dolorosa (Health/Skin_Disorders)
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Description: This is an excellent overview article on the disease characterized by painful lipomas... (benign fatty tumors). Note that the first part of the article is a biography of Dr. Dercum.This page describes the symptoms of Dercums Disease (Adiposis Dolorosa). It is an excellent overview article in English
Specializes in: dercum disease adiposis dolorosa dercums painful fat tumors pain autosomal dominant... nerve lesions