1. EMedicine - Adiposis Dolorosa : Article By Nada Macaron, MD adiposis dolorosa First described in 1892 by the American neurologist FrancisXavier Dercum at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pa, http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic839.htm

(advertisement) Home Specialties Resource Centers CME ... Patient Education Articles Images CME Patient Education Advanced Search Consumer Health Link to this site Back to: eMedicine Specialties Dermatology Diseases Of The Subcutaneous Tissue Adiposis Dolorosa Last Updated: March 27, 2003 Rate this Article Email to a Colleague Synonyms and related keywords: Dercum's disease, Dercum disease, painful lipoma, fatty tissue rheumatism, juxta-articular adiposis dolorosa (occurs around the knees) AUTHOR INFORMATION Section 1 of 9 Author Information Introduction Clinical Differentials ... Bibliography Author: Nada Macaron, MD , Staff Physician, Department of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine Coauthor(s): Jack Arbiser, MD, PhD , Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine Nada Macaron, MD, is a member of the following medical societies: College of American Pathologists , and United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Editor(s): C Lisa Kauffman, MD

2. Dercum's Syndrome,Lipomatosis Dolorosa-Adiposis Dolorosa And Morbus Dercum Relatively unknown disease like Lipomatosis Dolorosa also know as adiposis dolorosaor Morbus Dercum and Dercum s Syndrome May Respond to Special Diet. http://www.dstressdoc.com/dercum's.htm

Lipomatosis Dolorosa Adiposis Dolorosa Morbus Dercum Dercum's Syndrome Described as a chronic, almost unknown disease, for the first time in 1888 by the American neurologist Francis X. Dercum. And get this, neither the cause of the disease nor the treatment is yet known. Most common symptoms: Pain, definite or indefinite swellings or lipomas, weight gain of maybe 50%, fatigue, difficulty in walking. The disease occurs mainly among women and increases with age. In spite of the fact that the disease has been known and described for more than 100 years. http://www.algon.dk/dercum/dercumeng2.php paints a pretty bleak picture with little know about treatment and the disease eventually attacking internal organs. Some believe that Dercum's Syndrome is an umbrella term for a whole host of health problems with unknown cause/cure. My first awareness of this syndrome came from a woman in Alabama who related to symptoms I experienced for many years related in a page on my website.

3. Adiposis Dolorosa AKA Dercum's Disease These are more extensive, and better edited diary entries of Nunnie, aka PamPole, on her road of discovery of Dercum s, and extend past the original posts http://www.nunnie.com/dercums.html

I have an extremely rare incurable disease called: Adiposis Dolorosa. It is also known as "Dercum's Disease". So far I have only found about 20 people that have this disease. There is NO cure. There is NO treatment. There is only supportive medications which are mainly pain pills. When this all first started, back on September 23, 1997, it started out as pain in my hands and arms. There was a lot of weakness and my hands and arms were going to sleep. In addition there was a huge lump inside the crook of my elbow on my left arm. It was about the size of a walnut. To just touch it sent me into tears as it was so painful. They thought it was Carpal Tunel, but ruled that out. Then they said it was Over-Use. I hadn't been typing much since September when it hit, and yet I was not getting any better. I had been begging my doctor, Doctor Fillingame, since September to do a biopsy on the first lump and he never would. Then I started asking him to refer me to a specialist and he wouldn't do that either. Since September I developed tumors on both my arms. The one huge lump at the crook of my elbow on my left arm turned into more lumps up the inside of my arm. In addition I developed another huge lump in the crook of the elbow in my right arm. At that point I started getting tumors, multiple tumors daily. They would grow very rapidly. What would start out the size of a pin head would become the size of a peach pit by the end of the day. Each visit I begged and pleaded with my doctor to please do a biopsy or send me to a specialist and he wouldn't.

4. Dercum's Disease - Aka 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/

setAdGroup('67.18.104.18'); var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Search: Lycos Tripod 40 Yr Old Virgin Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site ... Next Dercum's Disease also known as Adiposis Dolorosa or Dercum Syndrome Talk about this disease online with others who have it. Join the chat at a NEW place every Tuesday at 7 p.m. PDST (or 10 p.m. EDST) on AOL at Dercum Chat on Homestead "Evidently the disease is not simple obesity. If so, how are we to dispose of the nervous elements present? Equally plain is it there we have not myxoedema to deal with. ... It would seem, then, that we have here to deal with a connective-tissue dystrophy, a fatty metamorphosis of various stages of completeness, occurring in separate regions, or at best unevenly distributed and associated with symptoms suggestive of an irregular and fugitive irritation of the nerve-trunks – possibly a neuritis … Inasmuch as fatty swelling and pain are the most prominent features of the disease, I propose for it the name Adiposis Dolorosa." [ From: Dercum FX.

5. Article: Corticosteroid-Induced Juxta-articular Adiposis Dolorosa (Dercum's Dise This article discusses a case of Dercum's Disease in the knee that was apparently caused by corticosteroid usage. http://members.tripod.com/dercums_data/greenbaum.html

setAdGroup('67.18.104.18'); var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Search: Lycos Tripod Star Wars Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site ... Next Corticosteroid-Induced Juxta-articular Adiposis Dolorosa By Steven S. Greenbaum, MD, John Varga, MD From the Departments of Dermatology (Dr Greenbaum) and Medicine (Dr Varga), Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. Reprinted from the Archives of Dermatology February 1991, Volume 127, pages 231-233 Long-term treatment with high doses of corticosteroids leads to the development of truncal obesity and focal fatty deposition. These deposits characteristically are located on the face, the nuchal and truncal areas, and episternally, as well as in the mediastinum and epicardium. We studied a patient with juxta-articular adiposis dolorosa who had L-tryptophan-associated eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome and was treated with high doses of prednisone. This is the first reported case of adiposis dolorosa occurring as a complication of corticosteroid treatment. Alterations of fat metabolism induced by corticosteroid excess may have played a role in the development of this unusual painful syndrome. Adiposis dolorosa is an uncommon disorder of subcutaneous tissue that was first described by Dercum in 1892 at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. The understanding of this disease has not progressed very much in the past 98 years. It remains better understood as a clinical entity than as a physiologic or metabolic process.

6. 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. http://www.jeghers.com/annts/lipomas.htm

LIPOMAS, LIPOMATOSIS, AND CERTAIN CLINICAL TYPES OF ABNORMAL FAT DEPOSIT (Annotations and Bibliographies of Selected References) Prepared for: Medical Grand Rounds St. Vincent Hospital Worcester, Mass. Date: June 14, 1974 Prepared by: Harold J. Jeghers, M.D. and Solomon O. Oyesola, M.S.L.S., A.L.A. (On study leave from Medical Library, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria. Presently at Case Western Reserve University, School of Library Science) Does not include data on ordinary obesity, obesity related to endocrine disorders, atrophy or necrosis of subcutaneous fat tissue, etc. **Read First *Read Next ADIPOSE TISSUE (General Information) There is an enormous literature on the type of obesity related to imbalance of caloric intake and energy output and abnormalities of body fat distribution related to certain endocrine disorders. It is well known that the amount and distribution of body fat varies with age, sex and race. By contrast, less attention has been paid to certain disorders characterized by abnormal localized forms of excess adipose tissue. Reading a few selected articles related to basic science concepts and general orientation to the subject of adipose tissue will be helpful. **Wells: Adipose tissue, a neglected subject. JAMA 114: 2177-2183; 2284-2289, 1940 (a scholarly and classic paper; literature; several helpful illustrations)

7. NORD - National Organization For Rare Disorders, Inc. 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 Diseas

8. Redirect 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

9. EMedicine - Adiposis Dolorosa Article By Nada Macaron, MD adiposis dolorosa First described in 1892 by the American neurologist Francis Xavier Dercum at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pa http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

10. EMedicine - Lipomas : Article By Robert A Moraru, MD Brodovsky S, Westreich M, Leibowitz A, Schwartz Y adiposis dolorosa (Dercum s Juhlin L Longstanding pain relief of adiposis dolorosa (Dercum s http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic242.htm

(advertisement) Home Specialties Resource Centers CME ... Patient Education Articles Images CME Patient Education Advanced Search Consumer Health Link to this site Back to: eMedicine Specialties Dermatology Benign Neoplasms Lipomas Last Updated: November 7, 2001 Rate this Article Email to a Colleague Synonyms and related keywords: lipomatosis, Madelung disease, Madelung's disease, Dercum disease, Dercum's disease, adiposis dolorosa, angiolipoma, hibernoma AUTHOR INFORMATION Section 1 of 9 Author Information Introduction Clinical Differentials ... Bibliography Author: Robert A Moraru, MD Robert A Moraru, MD, is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Dermatology Editor(s): Janet Fairley, MD , Professor, Program Director, Section Chief, Department of Dermatology, Medical College of Wisconsin; Michael J Wells, MD , Staff Physician, Department of Dermatology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center; Rosalie Elenitsas, MD , Director of Dermatopathology, Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania; Catherine Quirk, MD

11. Brorson/Fagher Article On Dercum's Disease Or Adiposis Dolorosa This site discusses the symptoms, personal stories and research that has been done in the study of Dercum's Disease (adiposis dolorosa). Excellent http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

12. Dercum's Disease (Adiposis Dolorosa) - PubMed MedLine References This site discusses the symptoms, personal stories and research that has been done in the study of Dercum's Disease (adiposis dolorosa). This page http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

13. ADIPOSIS DOLOROSA (Search FastHealth.com) ADIPOSIS DOLOROSA adiposis dolorosa FastHealth Medical Dictionary http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

14. Nunnie's Spot On The Web It is called adiposis dolorosa AKA Dercum s Disease. As I said, this illness isvery, very rare and is often times either misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at http://www.nunnie.com/

Hi, my name is Pam AKA "Nunnie". I'm 50. I live with my husband, Rick . We moved from Oregon to Montana about 5 years ago. Rick has a lot of hobbies and interests. His main interest is aircraft, especially military aircraft. Take a look at his "Favorite Military Aircraft" pages. He has photos, information, and specs on his 10 favorite military aircraft. His main hobby is photography. Be sure and check out his "Wildlife Photography" pages where you will find some fantastic photos that he has taken of wildlife on our many travels around Oregon and Washington. Among them you will see deer, elk, numerous kinds of birds, etc. Please be patient, with so many photos the pages are a little slow to load. I have many hobbies and interests. But, my main interest is animals. Since moving to Montana we have purchased several horses. We are now breeding and raising registered Paint Horses. I have put up a quick web page on my horses for the time being. I will do a better one later on. You can check it out if you would like. The herd name is "Regal Paints" We have 2 cats. At the present time I have not made a page for them. I will probably do that this winter when I have more time. They are nothing special. Just something that we love. :)

15. 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. http://members.tripod.com/dercums_data/brorson.html

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16. LIPOMAS, LIPOMATOSIS, AND CERTAIN CLINICAL TYPES OF ABNORMAL FAT 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 http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

17. Dercum's Disease - Aka Adiposis Dolorosa This site discusses the symptoms, personal stories and research that has beendone in the study of Dercum s Disease (adiposis dolorosa). http://members.tripod.com/~Dercums_Data/

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18. CANCER CAUSES AND EFFECTS Chapter from Dr. Ed Friedlander's online textbook. adiposis dolorosa (Dercum's Disease) is mentioned (search for _QUOTATION_adiposis_QUOTATION_) . http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

19. Dercum's Disease aka Lipomatosis Dolorosa - aka adiposis dolorosa - aka Adipositas Dolorosa - aka Morbus Dercum - aka Dercum's Syndrome. Further information http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

20. Adiposis Dolorosa Of Dercum - General Practice Notebook adiposis dolorosa of Dercum. Dercum s disease is the formation of multiple fattydeposits in various sites. This is a rare disease that predominantly http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/cache/-1288372178.htm

adiposis dolorosa of Dercum Dercum's disease is the formation of multiple fatty deposits in various sites. This is a rare disease that predominantly affects women over men in a ratio of 30:1. It is rare for this condition to affect women before the menopause. This condition may be familial but the majority of cases are sporadic. It is characterized by the formation of circumscribed painful adipose tissue deposits in the subcutaneous tissues of the extremities and other parts of the body. The most common site for the deposits is the knees. The size of lesions varies from 0.5 to 5 cm. Patients are often obese. The disease may be associated with emotional instability, fatigue, weakness and, very occasionally, dementia. Histological examination reveals no abnormalities of the adipose tissue. There is no fat necrosis as seen in panniculitis. Giant cell formations may be seen. There is no satisfactory treatment. It has been reported that intravenous lidocaine brought relief in two cases. Click here for more information...

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