Indonesian man with a rare skin condition gets radical treatment. Jakarta, INDONESIA, Aug. 12, 2008 — -- Dede Koswara, known in his native Indonesia as "Tree Man," has lived for years with ...

FOR almost 40 years Li Xitian has suffered from an incurable skin condition that makes his skin as rough as tree bark ... The villagers have dubbed him "bark man" and, while they claim they ...

An Indonesian man suffering from a rare skin condition that causes his body to be covered with tree-like growths may soon get help from an American doctor, according to a report in the British ...

A Bangladeshi father known as "Tree Man" because of bark-like growths across his body ... suffers with epidermodysplasia verruciformis, a skin condition which has been reported in fewer than ...

A patient in Bangladesh known as "tree man" underwent extensive surgeries last ... infections on their skin, according to a 2010 report of the condition. In people with the condition, HPV ...

When the immune system cannot deal with HPV, the virus can take over the skin ... was nicknamed "tree man" disease in the media because the tumors often resemble wood or bark.

A man from Gaza suffering from 'tree man disease' has finally had the bark like growths removedCredit ... The operation left him with no skin on the affected hand which meant doctors at the ...

Tree man syndrome is a colloquial term for epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV). This is an extremely rare skin condition that can cause bark-like growths. While the exact prevalence of EV is ...

is sometimes called "tree-man disease" or "human tree disease." It's a very rare syndrome that causes bark-like lesions to grow on your skin. The lesions are disfiguring and can grow so large that ...