TRANSITORY PIGMENTED PURPURIC ERUPTION

To the Editor: The title "Transitory Pigmented Purpuric Eruption of the Lower Extremities'' has been given by Osment et al 1 to a condition which seems in every respect to be identical with the itching purpura described by me. 2 They remark that the latter condition, as well as the ``eczematid-like purpura'' of Doucas and Kapetanakis 3 (which I was at pains to differentiate from itching purpura), "more nearly conforms" to the clinical manifestations of the group they describe. I feel that this is an understatement and that an unprejudiced observer will agree that the symptoms, clinical and histologic pictures, laboratory findings, and even the response to corticosteroids in their condition and mine are the same. I had not intended to draw attention to this gross similarity had not the article in question been abstracted in the Year Book of Dermatology 4 ; the appropriate abstract 5 of my own article