The article presents abstracts of papers presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of American Society of Dermatopathology, held in San Francisco, California. The meeting was held from November 29 to December 1, 1989. Some abstracts which were presented at the meeting are "Angiomatoid Fibrous Histiocytoma," by R. Cerio, D. McGibbon and E. Wilson Jones, "Pemphigus Vulgaris Affecting A Pilar Cyst," by W.R. Coleman and R.P. Kaplan and "The Cutaneous Signs of Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis," by K.G. Carison and L.E. Gibson.