LINEAR UNILATERAL BASAL-CELL NEVUS WITH COMEDONES

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Abstract
ALTHOUGH nevi have been the subject of a great many papers, much interest, and many philosophical arguments since the earliest days of medicine, it appears that there are still "new" nevi which have escaped detection and description in the past. I have recently studied a singular case of the nevus-unius-lateralis type which proved to be a systematized basal-cell nevus. REPORT OF CASE O. J., a 69-year-old white man, was seen in the department of dermatology and syphilology of the University Hospitals on May 16, 1951, on referral from the department of surgery, where he was being treated for an adenocarcinoma of the colon. He was a small, emaciated man with a marked congenital dorsal scoliosis and peculiar smooth growths on the skin of the left side of the body, also present since birth. Examination of the skin showed bands of varying width on the left side of the chest

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