Gougerot et al., in 1936, told of a young woman who presented herself with reticulate and bizarre-shaped erythematous macules, telangiectases, and atrophic white patches. [14] Histopathologically, the authors observed what they described as "evidence of vasculitis and also thrombosis." The authors called the condition of their patient "capillarite télangiectasique et atrophiante" but they used atrophie blanche as a synonym. Milian commented on this patient that she really had what he had called "atrophie blanche" and he emphasized that in this condition, the scarring developed consequent to thrombosis and not following injury from the outside. He thought that the scarring preceded ulceration and not ulceration the scarring. The description of features clinical and histopathologic by Gougerot and coworkers is very similar to what, more recently, was described as being typical of livedo vasculitis (see also livedo vasculitis).