Contributions of Dr. Louis “Pepper” Dehner to the art of cutaneous pathology, the first pediatric dermatopathologist

Dr. Louis “Pepper” Dehner has been one of the most influential surgical pathologists of the last century. Authoring more than 450 publications, he is the premier modern pediatric pathologist. Perhaps, an area that he is less recognized and in which we would like to describe his contributions, is his role as a creator of the art of pediatric dermatopathology. Dr. Dehner has had at least 50 major publications describing, discovering, and orienting the discipline in the fields of fibrohistiocytic disorders of childhood, vascular tumors, and histiocytosis among many others. Dr. Dehner has clearly manifested that while many similarities between adult and pediatric surgical pathology exist, “children get different diseases.” It is because of his mindful analysis and translation of the clinico-pathologic and biologic correlative between specific entities and advances in the field he has made that we are honored to describe some of his contributions to this particular area.