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 ...

His art gallery in Asikkala is filled with a myriad of objects constructed of nothing but strips of birch bark woven together without glue or nails. When properly processed, the cardboard-like ...

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 ...