Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn.

Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn (SFN) is an uncommon disease that affects newborns who have suffered from tissue hypoxia during or following delivery. This disease appears during the first weeks of life. It consists of indurate, erythematous or purple-erythematous nodules and plaques in the skin.

Rapp-Hodgkin syndrome with pili canaliculi.

A 20-year-old woman and her 12-year-old brother had hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, cleft lip and palate, midfacial hypoplasia with narrow nose from the nasal bridge to the tip, narrow dysplastic nails, and conical teeth and hypodontia, and hypospadias and hypoplastic uvula in the boy. The woman had major underdevelopment of intellectual capacity. The most important hair anomalies in both siblings were sparse eyebrows, pili torti, and pili canaliculi.

[Wells syndrome (3 cases)].

This report describes three cases of eosinophilic cellulitis (Wells' syndrome) observed during six years. In the author's opinion this condition is not frequent, but neither exceptional. A revision of clinico-pathological, etiopathogenic and therapeutics aspects is carried out.