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
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