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RENATO G. STARICCO, M.D.; AMIR H. MEHREGAN, M.D.

Arch Dermatol. 1961;84(6):943-947.

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The term nevus elasticus has been used in connection with 2 clinically and histologically different conditions, having in common only the fact of belonging to the group of connective-tissue nevi.

The first to use the term nevus elasticus was Lewandowsky¹ who, in 1921, under the title of Naevus Elasticus Regionis Mammariae described a condition appearing in the pectoral regions and being characterized by groups of perifollicular papules which histologically showed disappearance and degeneration of the elastic fibers. Seventeen other cases have been published so far under a variety of names, such as ``dystrophia elastica follicularis thoracica,''<sup>2</sup> ``naevus pseudocolloide parifolliculaire,''³ "nevus conjunctivus,''^4,5 and finally, "nevus elasticus.''^6-8

De Graciansky and Leclercq⁹ recently, under the title of Le Naevus elasticus en tumeurs disseminées, described an entity previously called "juvenile elastoma'' by Weidman and co-authors.¹⁰ This condition has also been described as ``Connective-tissue nevi" by Prakken . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
DETROIT

From the Departments of Dermatology, Wayne State University College of Medicine and Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit (Hermann Pinkus, M.D., Chairman).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 10, 1961.

Supported in part by research grant RG-4435 and C-2072 from the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Public Health Service, and in part by research contract DA-49-007-MD-584 from the Research and Development Division, Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army.

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