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1.Subcutaneous Lipomas | BluePrint for Health
BluePrint for Health provides information on health and wellness. It this case, it is a general article on lipomas, with reference to Dercum's disease.
URL:http://blueprint.bluecrossmn.com/topic/sublipomas
2.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.
URL:http://dercums_data.tripod.com/
3.Brorson/Fagher Article on Dercum's Disease or Adiposis Dolorosa
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.
URL:http://dercums_data.tripod.com/brorson.html
4.Corticosteroid-Induced Juxta-articular Adiposis Dolorosa
This article discusses a case of Dercum's Disease in the knee that was apparently caused by corticosteroid usage.
URL:http://dercums_data.tripod.com/greenbaum.html
5.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.
URL:http://dercums_data.tripod.com/nunnie1.html
6.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.ß (aka Dercum Syndrome, Adiposis Dolorosa)
URL:http://Dercums_Data.tripod.com/ref-list.html
7.Emerging Worlds, Dercum's Disease page
The site explores the possibility that chronic diseases are caused by stealth viruses, and that Dercum's Disease fits in that category. This page describes Dercum's Disease, and most of the description is taken from the Swedish site.
URL:http://emergingworlds.com/ch_conditions_detail.cfm?vPageid=157
8.Yahoo! Groups: dercums_disease
This is a group discussion area for those with dercum's disease, and provides a means of sharing experiences and ideas.
URL:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dercums_disease/
9.Dorrit Hvam's Dercum's Disease Page (Danish)
Danish language site describing Dercum's Disease - use Microsoft IE or Netscape 6.x to view.
URL:http://www.algon.dk/dercum/
10.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
URL:http://www.algonet.se/~fakumla/dercum/index.htm
11.DOIA - Adipositas Dolorosa
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).
URL:http://www.dermis.net/doia/diagnose.asp?zugr=d&lang=e&diagnr=214003&topic=i
12.Lipomas, Lipomatosis, and Certain Clinical Types of Abnormal Fat Deposit
This is an older article (1974) that has a section describing the Adiposis Dolorosa (Dercum's Disease or Dercum Syndrome), as well as other diseases affecting the fatty deposits.
URL:http://www.jeghers.com/annts/lipomas.htm
13.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.
URL:http://www.medonc.com/lipomas.htm
14.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.
URL:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Omim/dispmim?103200
15.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).
URL:http://www.pathguy.com/lectures/bones.htm
16.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.
URL:http://www.pathguy.com/lectures/neo-2-3.htm
17.Dercum Disease (NORD article)
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).
URL:http://www.rarediseases.org/search/rdbdetail_abstract.html?disname=Dercum%20Disease
18.Lipomas
Discusses various types of soft tissue lipomas, and provides several references to articles on Dercum's disease.
URL:http://www.thedoctorsdoctor.com/diseases/lipoma.htm
19.Dermatologic Diseases and Problems of Women Throughout the Life Cycle
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.
URL:http://www.vulvarpain.icomm.ca/brenner.html
20.What's in a name - Dercum's disease
Alternative names, symptoms and history.
URL:http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1453.html
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