Connective Tissue Nevus

• Figure 2.13 A: Neurofibromas (Courtesy of Dr. Paul Getz) B: Connective tissue nevus (Reprint from Laxer RM, ed. The Hospital for Sick Children: Atlas of Pediatrics. Philadelphia, PA: Current Medicine, 2005) C: Connective tissue nevus (Courtesy of Dr. Paul Getz) D: Infantile digital fibroma (Reprint from Burgdorf WH, Plewig G, Wolff HH, Landthaler M, eds. Braun-Falco’s Dermatology. 3rd ed. Heidelberg: Springer; 2009)

  Also known as shagreen patch (tuberous sclerosis) collagenoma, elastoma, or dermatofibrosis leticularis disseminata (latter in Buschke–Ollendorff syndrome)
• Onset at birth or early childhood; likely hamartoma
• Presents as firm, solitary, or multiple skin-colored papules, nodules, or plaques