CONNECTIVE TISSUE NEVUS

Abstract

This study concerns a type of nevus which has found little attention in the American literature. McCarthy1in his textbook on the histopathology of cutaneous diseases gave a clear histologic picture of the connective tissue nevus and cited the instructive description of Gans.2He also mentioned that he had seen sections from such a lesion in Arndt's collection in Berlin. However, I could find no other mention of the connective tissue nevus in any of the American textbooks on dermatology or in any of the periodicals. REVIEW OF LITERATURE Original Reports; Nomenclature.—The first 3 cases of connective tissue nevus were reported by Lewandowsky3(1921) under the name of ``naevus elasticus regionis mammariae.'' Lipschutz4in 1922 reported 4 more cases as instances ofPflastersteinnaevi(paving stone nevi). In the same year, 1922, With and Kissmeyer,5after they read the paper by