NAEVUS LIPOMATOSUS SUBEPIDERMALIS SEU SUPERFICIALIS CUTIS

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Abstract
Various types of tissue may take part in the formation of congenital cutaneous tumors. Usually the lesions arise from structures normally present in the epidermis and dermis. Keratosis, hyperpigmentation, hair and nevus cells originate from the epidermis, while nerves, glands, lymphoid tissue, blood vessels and fibrous and other cutaneous tissues may play a dominant rôle in various types of nevi. Fat is not normally found in the cutis, and only a few reports of proved cases of adipose tissue within that part of the skin have been found in the literature. In this communication we shall report a case of nevus with fat cells in the cutis. REPORT OF A CASE E. J., a woman aged 33, single, was seen by one of us (H. M. R.) in February 1936; she complained of numerous white spots about her arms and of a rough spot at the end of her

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