History.
—The patient, K. H., female, domestic, aged 15, had a hairy mole from birth, covering the entire right side of the face and raised above the surrounding skin, growing up into the hair, down along, close to and under the right eye, to within one-half inch of the ala of the nose and corner of the mouth down onto the neck, below the angle of the jaw and over onto the tragus of the right ear. The growth had given rise to no symptoms of any kind, but kept the patient a recluse, in order to avoid comment.
Operation.
—This nevus was removed piecemeal, six different operations being performed, at intervals of two weeks. The first consisted in taking away a piece, three inches in width, on the neck over the angle of the jaw, undermining the free flap of skin on the neck, pulling it up and suturing