Four brief reports of combined skin lesions are presented: (1) combine
d basal cell epithelioma and histiocytosis X, (2) combined intraepider
mal melanocytic neoplasia (melanoma in situ) and leukaemia cutis, (3)
combined melanocytic naevus with pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia and
desmoplastic trichoepithelioma, and (4) combined melanocytic naevus w
ith lichenoid gold reaction. The importance of the occurrence of such
lesions is discussed, as are the clinical and pathological diagnostic
difficulties they sometimes pose.