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To the Editor:—
The article on "Lichen Sclerosus et Atrophicus and Related Cutaneous Atrophies," by Dr. R. Nomland, which appeared in the April, 1930, issue of the Archives (vol. 21, p. 575), interested me greatly, especially because I am still unable to make up my mind as to the proper classification of certain dermatoses, examples of which I encounter at rare intervals.In several papers (MacKee, George M., and Wise, Fred: White Spot Disease, J. Cutan. Dis. 32:629 [Sept.] 1914. Wise, Fred, and Rosen, I.: Further Observations on So-Called White Spot Disease or Scleroderma Circumscripta, J. Cutan. Dis. 35:66 [Feb.] 1917. Wise, Fred, and Shelmire, B.: Chronic Atrophie Lichenoid Dermatitis [Csillag], Arch. Dermat. & Syph. 18:179 [Aug.] 1928) in which I collaborated with MacKee, Rosen and Shelmire, we attempted to make a clinical and histologic classification of the various atrophying eruptions with which Dr. Nomland deals in