Madelung's Syndrome: multiple symmetrical lipomatosis, alcoholism, pseudoliposarcoma and progressive neuropathy |
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Authors: | Paul D. Frankish Gordon I. Nicholson |
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Affiliation: | a Gastroenterology Department, Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | Three cases of multiple symmetrical lipomatosis (Madelung's disease) are described occurring in three male alcoholics presenting to a Gastroenterology Unit. The patients all had the characteristic development and distribution of multiple lipomata and the later occurrence of a severe progressive peripheral neuropathy. Two patients had alcohol related liver disease. |
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Keywords: | lipomatosis peripheral nerve diseases alcoholism |
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