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 Bones and Soft Tissue Description: 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). (pathguy.com) |
| Brorson/Fagher Article on Dercum's Disease or Adiposis Dolorosa 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. (members.tripod.com) |
| Cancer: Causes and Effects Description: 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. (pathguy.com) |
| Corticosteroid-Induced Juxta-articular Adiposis Dolorosa Description: This article discusses a case of Dercum's Disease in the knee that was apparently caused by corticosteroid usage. (members.tripod.com) |
| Dercum Disease (NORD article) Description: 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). (rarediseases.org) |
| Dercum's Disease, also known as Adiposis Dolorosa Description: 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. (dercum.org) |
| Dercum's Hope Description: A new (and still unfinished) website developed by the Dercum's Yahoo chat group to provide information and support about the disease. (dercumshope.org) |
| Dercum's Syndrome, Lipomatosis Dolorosa-Adiposis Dolorosa and Morbus Dercum, Description: Generally describes the disease. The author thinks that it may respond to special diet. (dstressdoc.com) |
| Dercums Sjukdom (Swedish) Description: 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 (user.tninet.se) |
| Dermatologic Diseases and Problems of Women Throughout the Life Cycle Description: 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. (vulvarpain.icomm.ca) |
| DOIA - Adipositas Dolorosa Description: 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). (dermis.net) |
| Dorrit Hvam's Dercum's Disease Page (Danish) Description: This is the English page of a Danish language site describing Dercum's Disease - use Microsoft IE or Netscape 6.x to view. (algon.dk) |
| eMedicine - Adiposis Dolorosa : Article by Nada Macaron, MD Description: Overview article describing Dercum's Disease. It is a melding of the various existing Dercum articles into a coherent presentation. (emedicine.com) |
| Emerging Worlds, Dercum's Disease page Description: 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. (emergingworlds.com) |
| Familial Multiple Lipomas Description: 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. (medonc.com) |
| Hundreds of Lipomas Description: Patient medical question and doctor answer from The Neurology and Neurosurgery Forum at Med Help. This question is about hundreds of lipomas. (medhelp.org) |
| ILDS: ICD-10 - by Code [E88.210 - G71.110] Description: 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). (ilds.org) |
| Italian Dercum Disease page Description: An Italian page discussing Dercum's Disease. This site is in Italian and English - this is the English reference. (malattierare.pediatria.unipd.it) |
| Lipoma Description: This site references some articles dealing with Dercum's Disease, and provides synopses of them. (thedoctorsdoctor.com) |
| Lipoma Excision- March 1, 2002 - American Family Physician Description: An article describing the excision of a lipoma. Dercum's in mentioned within the article. (aafp.org) |
| Lipoma Forum Description: A community devoted to sharing information, providing resources and offering support to those who suffer from lipomas, Dercrum's, MSL or any related illnesses. (lipomaforum.com) |
| Lipomas, Lipomatosis, and Certain Clinical Types of Abnormal Fat Deposit Description: 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. (jeghers.com) |
| Lipomatosis Dolorosa, Morbus Dercum - University of Magdeburg (Germany) English article Description: This page is the English translation of a German journal article on Dercum's disease. Other information, in German, is available on the website. (dercum.net) |
| Medical News - Dercum's Disease - From a patient Description: A recent article by a Dercum's patient from Denmark. (medicalnewstoday.com) |
| National Library of Medicine PubMed References Description: 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) (Dercums_Data.tripod.com) |
| Nunnie's Story - Adiposis Dolorosa AKA Dercum's Disease Description: These are more extensive, and better edited diary entries of Nunnie, aka Pam Pole, on her road of discovery of Dercum's, and extend past the original posts which are replicated on http://dercums_data.tripod.com/nunnie1.html (nunnie.com) |
| OMIM Entry for Adiposis Dolorosa (Dercum's Disease) Description: 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. (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| Subcutaneous Lipomas | BluePrint for Health Description: 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. (blueprint.bluecrossmn.com) |
| Who named it? - Dercum's disease or syndrome Description: Provides a brief description of the disease, as well as other names for the disease. (whonamedit.com) |
| Yahoo! Groups: dercums_disease Description: This is a group discussion area for those with dercum's disease, and provides a means of sharing experiences and ideas. (groups.yahoo.com) |
