Painful obesity

Adiposis dolorosa is a rare autonomic nervous system disease of unknown etiology, manifested by abnormal accumulation of subcutaneous fat in some parts of the body, accompanied by spontaneous pain in that part. This disease was first described by Dercum (1892), so it is also called Dercum's disease.

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