Category: Dercum Disease

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• Bones and Soft Tissue   [rate it] [review it]
  Section of an online medical/pathology text book by Dr. Ed Friedlander. Buried in here are some comments on Dercum's Disease (search for "dercum" to find them).

• Brorson/Fagher Article on Dercum's Disease or Adiposis Dolorosa   [rate it] [review it]
  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.

• Cancer: Causes and Effects   [rate it] [review it]
  Chapter from Dr. Ed Friedlander's online textbook. Adiposis Dolorosa (Dercum's Disease) is mentioned (search for "adiposis"). Even though the lipomas (tumors) are benign, they can cause problems just by being, and he lists a number of examples.

• Corticosteroid-Induced Juxta-articular Adiposis Dolorosa   [rate it] [review it]
  This article discusses a case of Dercum's Disease in the knee that was apparently caused by corticosteroid usage.

• Dercum Disease (NORD article)   [rate it] [review it]
  A discussion about this rare disorder (aka Dercum's Disease, Adiposis Dolorosa), characterized by pressure of fatty deposits on nerves, resulting in weakness and pain. Some resources are listed for further study. This entry is provided by NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders).

• Dercum's Disease, also known as Adiposis Dolorosa   [rate it] [review it]
  Symptoms, personal stories, and research that has been done in the study of Dercum's Disease. Includes a medical article describing the disease and references to scores of other articles. Chat room on Tuesday evenings.

• Dercums Sjukdom (Swedish)   [rate it] [review it]
  Marie Hallsten's Dercum site, in Swedish. Can be viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer (Netscape 4.77 doesn't work). Click on the "Dercums disease" button for an English summary page

• Dermatologic Diseases and Problems of Women Throughout the Life Cycle   [rate it] [review it]
  Article by Brenner and Politi on women's dermatological problems from the International Journal of Dermatology. There is a section on Dercum's Disease toward the end of the article.

• DOIA - Adipositas Dolorosa   [rate it] [review it]
  The DOIA, or Dermatological Online Image Atlas, is a listing of images relating to skin diseases. They do not have any pictures of Dercum's Disease, but they do ask for sufferers to fill out a questionnaire at the bottom of this page (the form doesn't always work properly, so save your answers elsewhere).

• Dorrit Hvam's Dercum's Disease Page (Danish)   [rate it] [review it]
  Danish language site describing Dercum's Disease - use Microsoft IE or Netscape 6.x to view.

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