- Bones and Soft Tissue
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).
http://www.pathguy.com/lectures/bones.htm
- Cancer: Causes and Effects
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.
http://www.pathguy.com/lectures/neo-2-3.htm
- Dercum Disease (NORD article)
A short 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).
http://www.rarediseases.org/search/rdbdetail_abstract.html?disname=Dercum%20Disease
- Dercum's Disease, also known as Adiposis Dolorosa
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.
http://www.dercum.org/
- Dercums Sjukdom (Swedish)
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
http://user.tninet.se/~jwv994x/dercum/
- Familial Multiple Lipomas
This is a doctor's page where he discusses some diseases associated with lipomas. He is a cancer doctor and does not consider Dercum's disease fatal. His description appears not to based on first hand experience.
http://www.medonc.com/lipomas.htm
- Hundreds of Lipomas
Patient medical question and doctor answer from The Neurology and Neurosurgery Forum at Med Help. This question is about hundreds of lipomas.
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/neuro/messages/31895a.html
- ILDS: ICD-10 - by Code [E88.210 - G71.110]
This site contains a list of Dermatology disease codes that include Dercum's. Adiposis dolorosa is at the top of list: E88.210 (use to be E88200).
http://www.ilds.org/icd10_list.php?VIEW=1&START_CODE=E88.2&START_EXT=10
- Italian Dercum Disease page
An Italian page discussing Dercum's Disease. This site is in Italian and English - this is the English reference.
http://malattierare.pediatria.unipd.it/pubblicaMR/mr_dx_ing.asp?mr=102
- Lipoma
This site references some articles dealing with Dercum's Disease, and provides synopses of them.
http://www.thedoctorsdoctor.com/diseases/lipoma.htm
- Lipoma Forum
A community devoted to sharing information, providing resources and offering support to those who suffer from lipomas, Dercrum's, MSL or any related illnesses.
http://www.lipomaforum.com
- National Library of Medicine PubMed References
This is a listing of the references to Dercum's Disease culled from Medline, the National Library of Medicine data base. (aka Dercum Syndrome, Adiposis Dolorosa)
http://Dercums_Data.tripod.com/ref-list.html
- Nunnie's Story
A description of one individual's long struggle to identify the disease, in the form of painful fatty tumors, that was wracking her body -- Dercum's Disease.
http://dercums_data.tripod.com/nunnie1.html
- OMIM Entry for Adiposis Dolorosa (Dercum's Disease)
This OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) site uses some very limited research (2 papers dealing with 3 families) to conclude that this may be an inherited illness.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Omim/dispmim?103200
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