title: Familial multiple lipomatosis.
abstract: A family genealogy, comprising four cases of familial multiple lipomatosis, making their appearance one after the other in three generations is reported. Two cases with impressive clinical features are presented in detail. This report contributes to the opinion that the disease is transmitted by the autosomal dominant route of inheritance.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D006801:Humans; D008068:Lipomatosis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010375:Pedigree; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology