Review of Dercums disease and proposal of diagnostic criteria, diagnostic methods, classification and management

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hansson, Emma ^a,b   Svensson, Henry ^a   Brorson, Håkan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adiposalgia; Adipose tissue; Adiposis dolorosa; Chronic pain; Dercums disease; Diagnostic criteria

Indexed keywords

ALBINTERFERON ALPHA2B; ANALGESIC AGENT; DEXTROTHYROXINE; EMLA; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 13; LEVAXINE; LIDOCAINE; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1BETA; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; MEXILETINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; OXCARBAZEPINE; PREGABALIN; PRILOCAINE; PROCAINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSIS DOLOROSA; ALGORITHM; ANALGESIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTHRALGIA; BLOATING; CAPILLARY RESISTANCE; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPNEA; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FATIGUE; FIBROMYALGIA; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; INCIDENCE; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID STORAGE; LIPODYSTROPHY; LIPOMATOSIS; LIPOSUCTION; MASTALGIA; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPATHY; NOMENCLATURE; OBESITY; PANNICULITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; THERMOGENESIS; WEAKNESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; MALE; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RARE DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSIS DOLOROSA; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PAIN; RARE DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84862170329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17501172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1750-1172-7-23     Document Type: Review

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