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Oct 4, 2022 · Pictures. Causes and risk factors. Diagnosis. Treatment. Complications. Outlook. FAQs. Summary. Dercum’s disease is a rare condition that causes multiple painful fatty-tissue growths to develop under the skin. These growths, called lipomas, are a type of benign, or noncancerous tumor. They appear most commonly on the upper arms, legs, and torso.
Feb 15, 2021 · People with Dercum’s disease (DD) have painful lipomas in the fat on their bodies. DD is thought to be rare. A rare disease as defined by the Orphan Drug Act of 1983 means that less than 200,000 people have the disease. The authors of this paper tried to determine whether DD was truly a rare disease or not.
Apr 10, 2023 · Adiposis dolorosa is a rare disorder of multiple painful subcutaneous growths of adipose tissue. It is also known as Dercum disease, Ander syndrome, morbus Dercum, adipose tissue rheumatism, adiposalgia, or lipomatosis dolorosa. This disease was first discovered in the late 1800s by American neurologist Francis Xavier Dercum.
- Jordan C. Cook, Gary P. Gross
- 2023/04/10
Apr 30, 2012 · Definition and clinical picture We propose the minimal definition of Dercum’s disease to be generalised overweight or obesity in combination with painful adipose tissue. The associated symptoms in Dercum’s disease include fatty deposits, easy bruisability, sleep disturbances, impaired memory, depression, difficulty concentrating, anxiety, rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, diabetes ...
- Emma Hansson, Henry Svensson, Håkan Brorson
- 2012
Sep 7, 2010 · Abstract. Dercum's disease, also known as adiposis dolorosa, is a rare disease characterized by the accumulation of painful subcutaneous deposits of mature adult fatty tissue around the thighs, trunk, and upper arms and usually in a multifocal distribution. We are reporting an unusual presentation of Dercum's disease, presenting as a single ...
- Semann Kosseifi, Ervin Anaya, Goutham Dronovalli, Stuart Leicht
- 2010
Mar 21, 2021 · Dercum’s disease (DD) and Roch-Leri mesosomatous lipomatosis (RLML) are rare and poorly characterized forms of lipomatosis. They have raised little clinical interest despite the non-negligible consequences of DD on quality of life. The main clinical presentation of these diseases includes multiple lipomas, which are painful in DD (in contrast ...
Sep 1, 2021 · Adiposis dolorosa, also known as Dercum’s disease, is a fairly rare and understudied disease typically characterized by painful subcutaneous adipose tissue growth of varying size and localization throughout the body under the surface of the skin [1].
