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P. W. MONCKTON COPEMAN, MA, MB, MRCP; EDWARD WILSON JONES, MA, MB, MRCP

Arch Dermatol. 1965;92(3):249-251.

Abstract
The pigmented hairy epidermal nevus (Becker) is a variety of epidermal nevus in which epidermal thickening may be minimal and hairiness and pigmentation obvious. Characteristically it is a unilateral lesion of the shoulder in males but it may affect other sites, be multiple and bilateral, and be found in women and Negroes.

Histological examination may show no epidermal thickening. Nevus cells are not seen in the dermis.

Author Affiliations
LONDON

St. Thomas's Hospital (Dr. Copeman) and St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin (Dr. Jones).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication May 20, 1965.

Reprint requests to Westminster Hospital, London SW 1 (Dr. Copeman).

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