To the Editor:— Many forms of matter, including solids, liquids, and gases, have traveled through the circulation to become impacted as emboli at some more distant site. The most frequently encountered varieties include thrombi, fat, air, bacteria, and bone marrow, but atheromata, amniotic fluid, starch, cotton fibers, mercury, oil, silicone, catheters, bile, and even bullets have produced embolism. An excellent review of the subject has recently been published by Mehta and Rubenstone. 1 We have been able to find only one previous published case of skin embolism, that reported by Berdnikoff and Couillard. 2 In this instance, death of a newborn infant was attributed to a paradoxical skin embolus to a coronary artery, presumably introduced into the circulation during surgical treatment of a large omphalocele one hour after birth. The authors postulated that the embolus had passed through a patent ductus to reach the left side of the heart where