We report a cutaneous lipomatous neurofibroma on the skin of the left-side parietal area of approximately 9 months' duration in a 67-year-old woman. The regular distribution of adipose tissue throughout the lesion suggested that fat was an integral part of the tumor, not a metaplastic or degenerative process. To our knowledge, this type of lesion has not been documented. The main differential diagnosis embraces neurocristic cutaneous hamartoma, lipoma and its variants, cutaneous meningioma, and neural nevus with fat replacement. We propose that lipomatous neurofibroma of the skin is caused by aberrant development of adipose tissue in a neurofibroma. The lesion originated as pluripotential neural crest cells after migration. This acquired lesion could arise from local stem cells. The old suggestion that neuroectoderm is capable of mesenchymal differentiation may be relevant to the histogenesis of this neoplasm.
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