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A recent article by a Dercum's patient from Denmark.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/index.php?newsid=5253
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Dercum's Hope
A new (and still unfinished) website developed by the Dercum's Yahoo chat group to provide
information and support about the disease.
http://www.dercumshope.org/index.php
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Dercum's Syndrome, Lipomatosis Dolorosa-Adiposis Dolorosa and Morbus Dercum,
Generally describes the disease. The author thinks that it may respond to special diet.
http://www.dstressdoc.com/dercum's.htm
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Dorrit Hvam's Dercum's Disease Page (Danish)
This is the English page of a Danish language site describing Dercum's Disease - use Microsoft IE
or Netscape 6.x to view.
http://www.algon.dk/dercum/dercumeng1.php
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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/
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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
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Lipomatosis Dolorosa, Morbus Dercum - Univerity of Magdeburg (Germany) English article
This page is the English translation of a German journal article on Dercum's disease. Other
information, in German, is available on the website.
http://dercum.net/Einleitung/Englisch/englisch.html
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Informationsseite Lipomatosis Dolorosa - Morbus Dercum - Universitaetsklinik Magdeburg - Dr Steiner (German)
A German website on Dercum's Disease, created by a Doctor who is planning on doing research into
the disease - Dr Johann Steiner
http://www.dercum.net/
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eMedicine - Adiposis Dolorosa : Article by Nada Macaron, MD
Overview article describing Dercum's Disease. It is a melding of the various existing Dercum
articles into a coherent presentation.
http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic839.htm
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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
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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
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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
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Lipoma Excision- March 1, 2002 - American Family Physician
An article describing the excision of a lipoma. Dercum's in mentioned within the article.
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20020301/901.html
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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/
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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.
http://blueprint.bluecrossmn.com/topic/sublipomas
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Lipoma
This site references some articles dealing with Dercum's Disease, and provides synopses of them.
http://www.thedoctorsdoctor.com/diseases/lipoma.htm
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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
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Who named it? - Dercum's disease or syndrome
Provides a brief description of the disease - also known as Anders' syndrome, Dercum-Vitaut
syndrome.
http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1453.html
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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.
http://emergingworlds.com/ch_conditions_detail.cfm?vPageid=157
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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
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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.
http://dercums_data.tripod.com/greenbaum.html
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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).
http://www.dermis.net/doia/diagnose.asp?zugr=d&lang=e&diagnr=214003&topic=i
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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
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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.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dercums_disease/
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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
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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.
http://www.vulvarpain.icomm.ca/brenner.html
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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://dercums_data.tripod.com/brorson.html
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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
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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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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
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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
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