The Men or Women Behind Nevi: Richard Sutton

In 1916, the dermatologist Richard Lightburn Sutton described 2 young women with pigmentary changes he called “leukoderma acquisitum centrifugum,”¹ better known as Sutton nevus or halo nevus. He thought that the cases he presented were varieties of vitiligo, not nevi. The correlation of leukoderma acquisitum centrifugum with melanocytic nevus was made by John H. Stokes, as reported by the editors of the 1923 Year Book.