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What is Proteus Syndrome?

Elephant Man’s Disease

Proteus Syndrome is condition which involves atypical growth of the bones, skin, head, and a variety of other symptoms. Unfortunately Proteus Syndrome is a weird disease as you may see above.

• The condition of Proteus disease was first identified by Michael Cohen in 1979.
• In 1983, a German pediatrician, Hans Rudolf Wiedemann, named it Proteus Syndrome for the Greek God Proteus “the polymorphous” presumably because of the variable manifestations in the four unrelated boys first identified with the syndrome.
• It’s unknown how many individuals have Proteus Syndrome, since not all individuals are reported in the medical literature.
• There are over 120 reported Proteus disease cases worldwide.
• Reported Proteus Syndrome cases have been isolated occurrences in families, suggesting that the condition is not hereditary.
• It affects both sexes equally, and has no particular racial, geographical or ethnic distribution.
• Proteus Syndrome is a very rare disease.
  Source: kumc.edu

Proteus Syndrome Pictures - Case Photograhy

Elephantitis Disease Pics

• The Boy with Proteus Syndrome - My Multiplesclerosis (Proteus Legs, Deformed Hand, Extra Tissue Growth on Foot)
• Woman’s teasing hell over ‘elephant legs’ - Daily Mail
• Combined Vascular Malformation - Children’s Hospital
• Common Signs of Proteus Syndrome - Proteus-Syndrome.org
• Gigantism (Proteus Syndrome) - The Fetus (Definition, Etymology, Sonographic Findings, Associated Anomalies)
• The progressive nature and severity of overgrowth in Proteus Disease - Nature
• Elephant Man Slide Show (Joseph Merrick) - Discovery Health (Skeleton)
• An actual photo of Joseph Merrick - Unexplained Mysteries
• Joseph Merrick - Google Images
• Proteus Syndrome Pictures - Google Images

Proteus Disease Videos

• Woman with Giant Legs - BBC News
• In Search Of… The Elephant Man - Hosted by Leonard Nimoy
• Joseph Carey Merrick, The Elephant Man - Slide Show, Beautiful Music
• Elephant Man of Today - Strange Operation
• And you think you have big balls? - Elephantiasis from Far East (Horrible)
• Fighting Disease - Lymphatic Filariasis
• Alleviating Suffering, Ending Shame - Miserable Symptoms

Proteus Syndrome Related Links

• Proteus Syndrome Foundation - Proteus-Syndrome.org
  
• My goal to spread tolerance of disease - This is Lancashire
• The challenges of Proteus syndrome: diagnosis and management - Nature
• Cinematic Empathy: Can Movies Make Us Better Doctors? - Medscape
• Proteus syndrome - Answers